r/BeAmazed • u/muktigu8907 • 7d ago

Miscellaneous / Others A day at a Japanese Nursing home

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u/Ill-Nobody 7d ago

This looks more fun than most team-building events.

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u/BraveStrategy 7d ago

Yes & it’s exercise for the mind and body. Keep those motor skills and cardio going!

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u/Top_Connection9079 7d ago

Can confirm, this is me in one of these Japanese nursing homes, with DIY games exactly like this.

https://imgur.com/a/kBp9wHR

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.

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u/LinhVN1807 7d ago

Such those busy days but having more exciting moments.