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Contents
〇 New Year’s greeting
〇 Find humor in life
〇 “Hitoyasumi”
〇 Smart wording for life of “subtraction”
〇 New Year’s greeting
Happy New Year! In 2020, we will keep working hard to bring more smiles to everyday life of people living with dementia and their families.
Here’s New Year’s greetings from the Representative Director Kazuo Naoi and the Scientific Advisor Prof. Masao Mori.
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〇 Find humor in life
There is a Japanese film titled Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days, released in December 2013 inside Japan.
The film is based on the original comic book by Yuichi Okano, a story about the author himself and his mother.
It depicts the days of a 62 year-old dowdy man, whose head became as pecoross, small onion, and his 89 year-old mother.
The pecoross’s mother can feel dead people as if they were still there. Watching her talking with unseen people, he starts to feel that having dementia and forget things may not be necessarily so desperate.
Now that most countries are facing aged societies, more people have risk for living with dementia. Unlike infection with a virus, dementia has no perfect prevention. No matter how careful you are, some get the disease while others don’t and able to stay lucid until the very last.
What is important is keep your mind positive to enjoy as much as possible, no matter what happens.
Of course, taking care of someone living with dementia every day is so hard that sometimes you can’t have optimistic feelings.
Still, the mother and her son in the film probably make you feel becoming forgetful might be not that bad.
As we’ve mentioned many times before, worsening of BPSDs gives caregivers enormous suffer.
One solution is Kouka, our high quality reishi supplement. We recommend Kouka, hoping care giving family members can live with joy without losing their sense of humor.
〇 “Hitoyasumi”
Ikkyu-san, a Japanese historical comedy animation program broadcasted from 1975 to 1982, is a masterpiece for children in those days.
It is based on Ikkyu-banashi, anecdotes compiled in Edo period (1603-1868) on a 15th century’s legendary Zen monk named Ikkyu Sojun.
In the program, just before it goes to the commercials, Ikkyu-san always give the well-known punchline, “Hitoyasumi, hitoyasumi (Never mind, take a break!)”
https://youtu.be/nd4Ru8ig4cY?t=765
Our scientific advisor Prof. Mori often says in his speech, “Don’t worry, I got it!” It’s such a heartening word.
Don’t try to do everything of caregiving all by yourself, and don’t hesitate to depend on somebody else.
Your earnestness, your strong sense of responsibility can make you mentally trapped.
Be open to receiving support before your mind or body is destroyed.
It‘s like raising children in a way.
No matter how you love your kid, you suffer stress when you don’t have any time for yourself.
Therefore, keep these things in mind:
1. Quit trying to do everything all by yourself, and be open to help from somebody else.
2. Do something for a change.
3. Take more breaks.
4. Quit sacrificing yourself, and act on your own life.
5. Watch out for your stomach, you need power before you move.
Especially, you have to remember 5 and treat yourself good food, as an empty belly bears no body.
〇 Smart wording for life of “subtraction”
People live with “addition”, accumulating memories, words, experiences etc. However, these things are destined to be lost with aging, especially from those living with dementia. Then, we can regard the loss as “subtraction”.
Here’s a story of a 79 year old man, who used to be a tax accountant. One day, a care attendant visited him to take him to the nursing home, but he answered he can’t because of the settlement term of March. This happened in May. Dementia had sapped his sense of day or date, and finally he didn’t know the season.
A family member, living in “additive” life, inadvertently said “No, it’s May!” This might be agonizing for the man if he is living in a world of “subtraction”.
The care attendant made witty remarks. “We need your help for our declaration, so could you come with me right now?” After that, the man started regular visit so happily, thinking as if he was going to work.
Although we can’t say this kind of white lie, words that fit “subtractive” life, works all the time, you can keep it in mind as a promising option for better communication to make things more smoothly.
Thank you very much for your understanding and support to our activities.
Thank you very much for your understanding and support to us during the past year.
In 2020, we continue our mission aiming to see more smiles in families and dementia free communities in the world.
We believe taking proper amount of reishi, a gift of nature, is essential for normalization of microcirculation, which helps cognitive functions’ recovery a lot.
We strongly hope this information reaches as many people as possible to avoid tragedies as homecare murders or the elderly’s fatal accidents.
Our association has conducted physiological researches to prove cognitive functions can recover, as well as offering a wide range of awareness campaigns to present the research outcomes.
One particular approach is providing a reishi supplement for continual ingestion to ameliorate dementia’s peripheral symptoms and stop microcirculation’s decline responsible for dementia and lifestyle-related diseases. Some customers who had peripheral symptoms as violent behaviors are reported to become gentle and peaceful after taking Kouka.
Another person, who had been suffering from depression, began to go out and perform farm chores, and still another recovered well enough to go overseas to meet an old friend.
We also have a very positive feedback from a person whose mother had been suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations, saying that those symptoms disappeared and now she and her family have peaceful days.
Smiles in families are our joy and drive.
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