| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Kaisoho School is a community-building initiative that aims to help elderly people to work together to sustain and improve their mutual sense of purpose in life. For healthy elderly people, it is realized through their involvement as volunteers in the operation of the school, while infirm elderly people seek to accomplish this by participating as members. Consequently, the healthy elderly people experienced a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. The sense of having a purpose in life indicated a slight rise for 77 participants in group reminiscence activities, successfully re-establishing connections of those elderly people who had previously been socially reclusive with society.
Furthermore, the results of a survey of awareness of the reminiscence method conducted among 2,303 elderly welfare-oriented facilities and institutions revealed that 62.9% of the total number were “aware” of reminiscence as a technique, indicating that it has achieved an adequate level of recognition.
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