Huang Bo leads the second season of Tencent Video’s public welfare program on cognitive impairment, from online dissemination to reality
"Unforgettable Restaurant" is open for a long time, with more than slogans for charity
Tencent Video, Hengdun Media, Hanner Film and Television jointly produced, Penguin Films and Hengdun Media, a public welfare program focusing on cognitive impairment, "Forgettable Restaurant", the second season is now on the air. An elderly waiter with cognitive impairment formed an "unforgettable family" and jointly operated a restaurant, starting a warm collision between forgetting and keeping watch. On August 12, the "Forgettable Restaurant" in Shanghai announced that it will start long-term business for the general public, provide job opportunities for the elderly with dementia, and hold regular dementia science classes. A public welfare program starts with celebrities' attention and finally observes the lives of ordinary people who are ill. It starts with online communication and finally reaches reality. It truly practices public welfare instead of shouting slogans.
In an era when almost everyone is full of admiration, respect and gratitude for the young "back waves", "Forgettable Restaurant" focuses its attention on the "front waves" where youth is no longer and still suffering from diseases-dementia (Alzheimer's disease) patients, most of them are elderly people, discuss how the younger generation and the whole society should get along with the sick elderly. It was originally just a variety show. In addition to spreading the knowledge of dementia through online dissemination, it has opened an offline project that can truly help patients. Such a choice against the trend, on the contrary, demonstrates the social responsibility of the show's humanistic care.
1 The restaurant is officially open from online to offline
On August 12, the second season of "Unforgettable Restaurant" was recorded for the last time in Shanghai. At the same time, the "Unforgettable" Appreciation Meeting was held. Ms. Song Shuli, Director of the Publicity Department of the National Health Commission, and Mr. Wu Jing, Deputy Director of China Health Education Center , Mr. Dong Guanpeng, Dean of the School of Government and Public Affairs of Communication University of China, Mr. Yu Jintai, the executive deputy director of the Institute of Neurology of Fudan University, and Mr. Yu Jintai, the leader of the cognitive sub-specialty of the Department of Neurology of Huashan Hospital, attended the meeting. At the acknowledgment meeting, Ms. Song Shuli awarded Huang Bo the "Health Literacy Promotion Image Ambassador" and issued a certificate, affirming his contribution to the public welfare action of promoting cognitive impairment in popular science in "Forget the Restaurant". In addition, the Science Popularization Branch of the Chinese Medical Association will set Unforgettable Restaurant as a health science popularization base; Shanghai Health Literacy Promotion Committee will set Unforgettable Restaurant as a health literacy education base. Greatly affirmed the meaning of "Unforgettable Restaurant".
The surprise eggs recorded that day came from the collective return of the five elderly people in the first season. The members of the two seasons of "Forget the Family" all joined together for the first time. Grandma Dandelion took the stage to speak on behalf of the elderly in the first season, expressing the excitement and joy of reuniting again in "Forgettable Restaurant". She also shared her mental journey after the illness. From the beginning, she was afraid that others would know that she was sick, and refused to communicate and socialize until she took the initiative to seek medical treatment. She worked hard to cooperate with treatment and continued to work bravely. At the beginning, she decided to participate in "Forget the Restaurant", also hoping to tell all the elderly who are as sick as herself not to be pessimistic, to maintain a positive attitude, and to bring encouragement and hope to her family and relatives.
It was also announced at the thank-you meeting that the "Forgettable Restaurant" will officially open to the public for a long time after the end of the second season catalog system. Huang Bo said in his speech that he will never forget that the restaurant will officially land and will undertake the following tasks after long-term operation: First, it will regularly provide jobs for the elderly, especially those with cognitive impairments, and provide them with a long-term, non-medicinal Intervention treatment environment. Secondly, the restaurant will organize non-forgettable classes during non-business hours, popularize the health of the elderly, especially health prevention knowledge related to cognitive impairment, and provide psychological counseling for the families of patients with cognitive impairment. Third, we will strive to build the restaurant into a platform for young people to understand aging, cognitive impairment and related health knowledge. From online programs to offline charity organizations that provide long-term help, "Forgettable Restaurant" shows the audience that charity is not just in words, but in action.
2 Go deeper and seek social support
No one is an island. Behind every sick old man, at least one family is involved. The mission of "Unforgettable Restaurant" is to teach the public how to take care of the elderly with cognitive impairment, how to understand cognitive impairment, and to understand families with cognitive impairment patients. The elderly who participated in the first season have relatively mild illnesses, in order to arouse widespread social attention to the cognitively impaired groups, and hope that everyone can detect, intervene, and treat this disease in time; in the second season, elderly people with more serious illness are invited to participate. Pay more attention to the various difficulties and challenges faced by patients with cognitive impairments, and explore ways and methods to get along with the sick elderly together.
Among the elderly in the second season, Grandpa Park and Grandma Kong suffer from moderate to severe cognitive impairment. They will forget the purpose of coming to the restaurant and anxiously express that they want to go home on the first day of opening. The store manager group called out the pressure and had to connect with experts for help and find family members to soothe their emotions. In the next few days, the store manager group patiently and tenderly communicated and guided, and listened to expert guidance to distract the elderly in a timely manner. Grandpa Park and Grandma Kong gradually adapted to the role of the "elderly service group".
The program not only truly restores the daily life of patients in real life, but also tells the public through the practice of the celebrity store manager group under the guidance of experts, that patients with cognitive impairment should not be treated with complete illness. As long as you follow the scientific method, plus recognition, encouragement, and patience, such old people will gain the power to face life again, show their own shining points, and prolong a quality life.
3 Explore intergenerational relationships and introduce young people to participate
Everyone gets old, and now those silver-haired old people used to be surging "back waves". To arouse the whole society to be gentle with cognitive impairments and the elderly, the participation of young people is indispensable. "Unforgettable Restaurant 2" explores popular intergenerational relationships by presenting the exchanges between the "elderly service group" and young people.
In the show, Grandma Kong doesn’t remember many things, but she never forgets the sweet love with her husband, so she is very enthusiastic to "chat" the young people in the store to fall in love, and even pair Song Zuer and Huang Bo by herself. . Song Zuer asked Grandma Kong if she didn't think she and Huang Bo were of the wrong age? Grandma Kong bluntly said that age is not important. Grandma Kong also praised her grandson-in-law Xiaoxia. She later told the celebrity store manager group that it was her granddaughter who chose her boyfriend. She thought it would be good. Some netizens commented that the enlightened grandparents are beyond their imagination.
Among the guests who made an appointment to have dinner in the "Unforgettable Restaurant", several tables were brought by the younger generation and the elders of patients with cognitive impairment. Their exchanges showed the touching affection between generations. In the second episode, the sisters accompany the sick mother for dinner, and the mother will bypass and cover up all the problems she can't remember. Later, the little girl said with red eyes to the camera, knowing that the disease is irreversible, and now she can only do everything she can to make her mother happy every day and make her forget the people around her later.
In the third episode, when Xue Zijiao reported her name, Grandma Kong said in surprise: "My granddaughter is also called by this name, but she is only six or seven years old, and she is now in elementary school." But family affection can never be forgotten. When she mentioned her nickname "Beibei", Grandma Kong stared at her granddaughter's face, and finally remembered that this was the grown-up granddaughter. Although she turned around and didn't know her again, the moment of remembering was enough to make people cry.
In the face of disease, human beings are often powerless, but "Forgettable Restaurant" tells everyone through entertainment + real records that we can make the sick group live better and more dignified, but this requires the whole society Especially the participation of younger generations.
Written by/Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie