Elderly care

Elderly care

Question # 1 What is your purpose?

People, who live in Okinawa, Japan, have the world's longest life expectancy and the world's longest health expectancy. How do they do it? Answer: They don’t have a word for retirement.

Instead, they have the word ikigai, which means the reason you get up in the morning.

We don’t want to retire and do nothing. We just want to do something we love. https://hbr.org/2016/04/why-retirement-is-a-flawed-concept

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Question # 2 How would you like to enjoy the outdoors?

To help keep sufferers of dementia or Alzheimer’s safe and protected while enabling them to maintain a sense of normality in their lives, the small Dutch village of Hogeweyk in the Netherlands was designed to allow its residents to roam around freely without endangering themselves. http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/dementia-village-architecture.html

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033111/asides/why-nursing-homes-should-have-gardens

Gardens

The availability of gardens offer opportunities for  active engagement with gardening.  walking in outdoor environments.  sitting in soothing surroundings. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033111/asides/why-nursing-homes-should-have-gardens

Question # 3 What technologies would you like to use to communicate with others?

https://www.facebook.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/ https://www.skype.com/ https://twitter.com/ https://web.whatsapp.com/

Question # 4 What is your understanding of your health condition?

What is your understanding of your health condition?

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Question # 5 What are you afraid of?

What are you afraid of? Why?

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Question # 6 What is unacceptable for you regarding your health condition?

What is unacceptable for you regarding your health condition?

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What abilities are so critical to your life that you cannot imagine living without them?

https://hbr.org/2016/12/changing-how-patients-and-doctors-talk-about-death

Question # 7 To live longer, what are you willing to go through?

How much are you willing to go through to live longer?

https://hbr.org/2016/12/changing-how-patients-and-doctors-talk-about-death

If your health condition gets worse, what goals do you have?

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Question # 8 What do you want?

What do you want?

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/05/invaluable-lessons-about-what-a-good-death-might-look-like.html

Question # 9 What food would you like to eat?

What food would you like to eat?

https://hbr.org/2016/12/changing-how-patients-and-doctors-talk-about-death

Question # 10 What music would you like to listen to?

What music would you like to listen to?

https://hbr.org/2016/12/changing-how-patients-and-doctors-talk-about-death

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