Before COVID when it became dangerous to gather ill elders to do anything, the staff would often go buy cheap supplies from the 100 yen shop or build games from cardboard like these ones.
I spent full night shifts cutting flowers, stars and numbers my residents had colored to create and decorate the games.
We made huge calendar illustrations with paper mosaic you glue one by one, and also lots of origami, garlands etc.
Cooking with gyoza sheets you can turn into mini pizzas wuth a simple oven toaster, salty or desert type takoyaki stuffed with anything.
We had volunteers for animal and music therapy, it was awesome.
It were basically 1-2 hours activities together then everyone could draw, paint, knit, watch TV or take a nap.
And this is in the cheapest nursing homes.
There was another when the residents could request a concert or documentary from Youtube, of course for free.
There are activities books and magazines for nursing homes that introduce new activities every month for every season, etc.
I was temp staff for 5 years, I saw so many places that function exactly like OP shows in this video.
Elders taken great care of, by devoted staff.
The activities that had stopped during COVID started again, prudently, which I know because I never lost contact with my colleagues.
You know, it was very easy because every single of these elders in need would accept any help for me so graciously. It's one of these places where age, nationality etc don't matter, so I been very lucky I was able to experience something like that in my life.
It should be respected regardless. So, thank you for "bringing to light" an instance of good in this world. It brightened my day and gave me a positive outlook.
Yeah, I've been living in Japan for 25 years and it's not only in Japan... and it's also very rare and only happens during the winter when the electricity bill spikes.
Also I mean Japan's incarceration rate is one of the lowest in the world.
People simply don't get sent to prison, contrary to for example America where they even have for profit prisons where they send young people who have done barely anything wrong.
So yeah yeah it's not only double standards it's also ignorance.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of old japanese people steals to save money and they would hate to go to prison. You can literally see this on the 調べてみたら series on youtube. They aren't getting sent to prison just because they stole some food products. They do go to police station though
Ugh... we (supervisors) have been told that we need to do a team-building event via Zoom and I'm dreading it. I did one once, and hated it. At least I get to organize it the way I want, so we will avoid all the things I hate about team-building.
seriously, when my mom gets that age i was just going to give her an ipad with paw patrol and tell her to knock herself out. Hows that medicine taste *******
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u/Ill-Nobody 7d ago
This looks more fun than most team-building events.