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Significance of “Homecoming” for End-of-Life Care in the Nursing-Home: Efforts of Care by a Social Welfare Corporation “Futatsui fukushikai” and its Social Background
Get PDFA social welfare corporation “Futatsui fukushikai” located in Futatsui machi, Noshiro City, in Akita Prefecture, has been promoting comprehensive care and social welfare in their community, including nursing home care. Futatsui fushikai conducts “homecoming” as a part of their nursing home care program. Futatsui fushikai’s “homecoming” program helps older residents of nursing homes to temporarily return home. This “homecoming” also includes assistance in returning home for the elderly during end-of-life care. This new approach to end-of-life care builds on past efforts developed in the Futatsui town region, as confirmed by active public participation. “Homecoming” has allowed nursing home residents and their families to spend the last days of their lives in the comfort of their own homes. From the perspective of the “culture of end-of-life care,” Futatsui fukushikai’s end-of-life homecoming is part of a new trend toward the demedicalization and deinstitutionalization of death. At the same time, this new practice can be credited as an opportunity to generate a new culture of end-of-life care.departmental bulletin pape
A Continued Study on Mokuiku Activities Connecting the University and the Community : Based on the Analysis of Parent Questionnaire and University Students’ Reflections
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Religiosity of a Healthcare Chaplain
Get PDFThis article describes the author’s spiritual care practices as a healthcare chaplain, introducing a case of a mother who lost a baby to illness at the age of one year and two months. I consider three religious-spiritual themes, namely, “views after death,” the “abyss of helplessness,” and the “reconfiguration of the relationship with the dead.” With these themes I explore the mother’s bereavement process, attending to the chaplain’s religiosity that accompanied the mother’s bereavement. Through the process, the mother discovered the importance of living here and now by sharing with the chaplain who carried on spiritual care conversations with her about her baby’s place after death, her agony in the abyss of helplessness, and the meaning of her baby’s short life. Through this process, the chaplain became aware that the role of spiritual care is to accompany the mother on her journey to find the meaning of losing her beloved baby.departmental bulletin pape
