Development of Dementia Workshop Program for Commissioned Welfare Volunteers in Local Communities

VernacularTitle:民生委員を対象とした認知症ワークショッププログラムの開発
Author: Yoshihisa HIRAKAWA
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2012;61(2):113-117
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: Commissioned welfare volunteers (CWVs), who constitute indispensable part of health resources, play an important role in improving the environment so that those aged with dementia can live comfortably. They give advice to local residents and survey for enhancing their wellbeing voluntarily, while working hand in hand with district welfare offices. They are also expected to have a role-playing ability to support the living of aged people with dementia from a holistic point of view. In this study, we shed light on the needs of study for CWVs in order to mark one step forward toward the development of a dementia workshop program for local people, especially CWVs. Based on the findings, a program was worked out by way of trial and implemented. Lasting two hours and half, it comprises several sessions: “What is the workshop?” “Prevention of dementia,” “Difficulty in treating wih demented old men and experience of their families,” “Affliction case study1” and “Affliction case study 2." A questionnaire survey of the participants revealed that more than 90% of the program contents were understandable.