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Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster
Contrary to the assumption that older adults are only cared for by their families in rural Japan, this case illustrates that community formation can effectively provide older adult care after an emergency as well. We look at the life of a woman who lived in a housing facility for older adults, Idoba...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35185018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243117 |
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author | Ito, Naomi Kinoshita, Yuri Morita, Tomohiro Tsubokura, Masaharu |
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description | Contrary to the assumption that older adults are only cared for by their families in rural Japan, this case illustrates that community formation can effectively provide older adult care after an emergency as well. We look at the life of a woman who lived in a housing facility for older adults, Idobata-Nagaya in Soma, Japan, exploring how social housing—which addresses the needs of older adults regarding community, familiarity and socialising—can provide a viable, effective and comfortable environment for older adults to live. In the case of Idobata-Nagaya, not only could older adults take care of one another but they could also share experiences of the Fukushima disaster with each other. This is a qualitative case study which provides a stable foundation for policymakers, healthcare workers and government officials to better understand the effectiveness of housing projects for communities and older adults in Japan and globally. |
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spelling | pubmed-88600032022-03-08 Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster Ito, Naomi Kinoshita, Yuri Morita, Tomohiro Tsubokura, Masaharu BMJ Case Rep Global health: Health in vulnerable communities Contrary to the assumption that older adults are only cared for by their families in rural Japan, this case illustrates that community formation can effectively provide older adult care after an emergency as well. We look at the life of a woman who lived in a housing facility for older adults, Idobata-Nagaya in Soma, Japan, exploring how social housing—which addresses the needs of older adults regarding community, familiarity and socialising—can provide a viable, effective and comfortable environment for older adults to live. In the case of Idobata-Nagaya, not only could older adults take care of one another but they could also share experiences of the Fukushima disaster with each other. This is a qualitative case study which provides a stable foundation for policymakers, healthcare workers and government officials to better understand the effectiveness of housing projects for communities and older adults in Japan and globally. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8860003/ /pubmed/35185018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243117 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Global health: Health in vulnerable communities Ito, Naomi Kinoshita, Yuri Morita, Tomohiro Tsubokura, Masaharu Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title | Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title_full | Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title_fullStr | Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title_short | Promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: Soma Idobata-Nagaya after the 2011 Fukushima disaster |
title_sort | promoting independent living and preventing lonely death in an older adult: soma idobata-nagaya after the 2011 fukushima disaster |
topic | Global health: Health in vulnerable communities |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35185018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243117 |
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