AGING IN PLACE IN JAPAN: CHALLENGES AND FACILITATORS OF OLDER-TO-OLDER CAREGIVING
Mineko Wada, Hideaki Hanaoka · 2023
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Description
In Japan, near three in ten folk are past sixty-five, and more and more of them care for a spouse or kin as old as they are. Mineko Wada and Hideaki Hanaoka swept the past studies in 2023 to map that old-to-old care: its loads and its lifts. The sweep took in six stores of papers and kept the field studies of home care by the old for the old.
The loads are heavy: worn nerves, lost sleep, and a slide toward low mood, sharpest when the cared-for mind has faded. The lifts are habits more than goods: self-care steps and plain problem work, done day by day. Two gaps close the piece: what help truly cuts the load, and how the cared-for old themselves fare. The team call both asks urgent.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mineko Wada, Hideaki Hanaoka |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |