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‘Care literacy’ in super aging Japan

Accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the change in Japan to community-based health and care services for older adults indicates an urgent need to enhance and spread citizens’ understanding of care. This is a broader notion of care that incorporates conditions within th...

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Autores principales: Costantini, Hiroko, Nihei, Misato, Ueno, Tomoyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10446049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37645109
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.13853.1
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description Accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the change in Japan to community-based health and care services for older adults indicates an urgent need to enhance and spread citizens’ understanding of care. This is a broader notion of care that incorporates conditions within the community to support the inclusion of older adults, involving not only those older adults receiving care and their direct providers of care, but also others in the community who are involved in the daily lives of these older adults. To underpin such a broader notion of care across citizens, this paper proposes ‘care literacy’ as a novel analytical concept, defined as the knowledge and capabilities that enable people in need of care to live their daily lives in the community and facilitate potential health and care solutions. Reflecting the interconnection of health and care and rooted in the local context, care literacy underpins aging by enabling this involvement of the broader community, and is disseminated through media and grassroot activities.
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spelling pubmed-104460492023-08-29 ‘Care literacy’ in super aging Japan Costantini, Hiroko Nihei, Misato Ueno, Tomoyuki Open Res Eur Research Article Accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the change in Japan to community-based health and care services for older adults indicates an urgent need to enhance and spread citizens’ understanding of care. This is a broader notion of care that incorporates conditions within the community to support the inclusion of older adults, involving not only those older adults receiving care and their direct providers of care, but also others in the community who are involved in the daily lives of these older adults. To underpin such a broader notion of care across citizens, this paper proposes ‘care literacy’ as a novel analytical concept, defined as the knowledge and capabilities that enable people in need of care to live their daily lives in the community and facilitate potential health and care solutions. Reflecting the interconnection of health and care and rooted in the local context, care literacy underpins aging by enabling this involvement of the broader community, and is disseminated through media and grassroot activities. F1000 Research Limited 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10446049/ /pubmed/37645109 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.13853.1 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Costantini H et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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