Unable to return home due to self-restraint, having a great impact on long-term care 22 April 38 22:38
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, a national emergency declaration was issued, and self-restraint to move across prefectures was demanded. This situation is having a great impact on those who have continued to carry out "long-distance care" such as parents who live far away.
Hironobu Kudo (47), a blogger who runs a blog called “Long-term care for 40 years old who doesn't work hard alone”, wrote and lectured about nursing care in Tokyo, but more than seven years ago. I returned home to Iwate prefecture twice a month and cared for a 76-year-old demented mother who lives alone in her parents' house in Morioka.
In order to continue nursing care in a reasonable manner, we have established a system in which we can cooperate with my sister who lives in the prefecture and combine home-visit nursing care and day service so that someone's eyes can be seen every day.
In addition, by installing two "watching cameras" in my parents' house, I can check the state of my mother with a smartphone or PC, raise or lower the temperature in the room by remote control with IT equipment, or adjust the TV channel to my favorite program. I have been working hard so that my mother does not have to worry alone.
Mr. Kudo has been doing as much as he can while living away, but due to the spread of the new coronavirus, he has been unable to return home since the end of last month.
Mr. Kudo said, `` The elderly mother is at high risk of becoming seriously ill, and the helpers, nurses, physiotherapists, and their families who take care of me when I return home may be annoying. I haven't been able to do that because I believe that the accumulation of face-to-face meetings and daily life support has slowed the progression of dementia. Is very disappointing and anxious. "
Ms. Kudo is particularly worried that her mother's chances of cooking are reduced because she cannot return home. For Kudo's mother, who was a dormitory mother of a private company's employee dormitory, it was a purpose to live by cooking home cooking, and thinking about cooking methods and procedures and moving hands also led to rehabilitation of dementia.
When Mr. Kudo returned home, he wrote down his daily menu on a whiteboard, prepared the necessary ingredients on the kitchen, and encouraged him to cook in a natural manner for his mother who had forgotten much of his specialty. It was
The detailed support that has stopped the progression of dementia can be achieved by returning home and having direct contact, and nursing care services and online homecoming cannot be substituted.
Mr. Kudo said, “If you stop cooking, you will not be able to move your hands, and the progression of dementia will accelerate. If you think that you may forget your face even if you think that your symptoms may worsen at once. I was talking. "
No infected person has been confirmed so far in Iwate Prefecture, but a few days ago, the office that was using it said, "The user who has contact with the infected area will suspend the use for two weeks. I got a contact saying "I want you to do it", so it is more difficult to go home and I do not have the prospect of meeting my mother.
If Mr. Kudo continues to stay like this for a long time, he will eventually rent a car to go to Iwate, stay in the mountains with food and put a tent in the garden of his parents' house I'm starting to think that I have to go home after I've been isolated.
Mr. Kudo said, `` Online watching and connection are important, of course, and I will continue to use it as a tool that I can not miss, but I encourage myself to rehabilitate my life such as cooking and cleaning, and help me go to the hospital and walk. There is something we cannot do unless the declaration of emergency is lifted and it is difficult to return home as long as there is a risk of spreading the infection, so we have no choice but to hope that it will end in one day as soon as possible. "