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Home-like Environment

Feeling at home is a fundamental aspect of human existence, and it is essential for the sense of self. Thus, losing one’s home is losing oneself. To feel at home through the life cycle has been described as feeling related to oneself, significant activities, significant others, significant places, significant things, and to feeling a sense…
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Social Expectation and Dementia

Have you ever felt that sometimes we feel pressure that someone has expectations of us? Or maybe we have high expectations of ourselves, or sometimes we take this habit with high expectations of someone. and create this stress and pressure on yourself and those around you and have to admit that We are one of…
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Care Facility

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) proposes a number of tax incentives and non-tax incentives to support older people-related products and services. Tourism is identified as one of the major potential industries of the Thai economy. Thailand tourism provides an indispensable overview of this remarkable land of contrasts. The economy’s resilience has been associated with…
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Aromatherapy and Dementia

Sensory design can be relaxing for people with dementia who may experience agitation or anxiety. Soothing music and smelling a familiar scent can help reduce agitation and encourage relaxation, supporting to improve the overall wellbeing and quality of life for an individual. The implementation of sensory stimulation activities for residents with dementia is imperative. As…
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Reflection of Plan75

“There is no Plan 75 yet in real life, but I wanted to make the audience feel it could happen at any time.” Japan is one of the most super-ageing societies. In a near-future Japan that looks very much like the present, the government has unveiled a modest, monstrous proposal to address the country’s demographic…
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Art Therapy for Palliative Care and Seniors

Last week I attended an art therapy workshop (online). It was a completely new experience. New understanding of art and therapeutic experiences. Relaxation and meaningful activities. Art therapy is increasingly recognised as a profession. In the early 1980s, the published literature on the subject was also sparse. Indeed, it was not until 1984 that the…
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Design Guidelines: Concept

Concept, for designers, becomes the force and identity behind the progress of a project, and it is consistently referred throughout every stage of its development. At the planning stage of design processes, the first conceptual level of organisation has been applied that the process of form development draws upon the way of thinking which brings…
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Dementia and Memory

Recognition memory is the ability to identify as familiar a stimulus or a situation that has been encountered before and allows humans to identify people, places, words, sounds, and objects effortlessly and in a fraction of a second. However, recognition memory tasks of people with dementia engage both long-term memory (i.e., secondary memory) and working…
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Quality of Care (คุณภาพของการดูแลภาวะสมองเสื่อม)

What exactly is the meaning of the word quality? Good quality elderly homes How to choose what is good quality Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase their likelihood of obtaining the desired health outcomes. which is based on evidence-based professional knowledge and is essential to achieving…
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Perception of Dementia

“Do you know what perception is? How and how do people with dementia perceive the gap? How do people with dementia perceive time and space if they are unable to orient?”“Do you know what perception is? How and how do people with dementia perceive the gap? How do people with dementia perceive time and space…
