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Workshop 3b: Emerging compassionate communities in Japan and international partnership
Time:
Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer"
Language: English
Presentations
Emerging compassionate communities in Japan and international partnership
Hirobumi Takenouchi1, Junya Fukazawa2, Harumi Oishi3, Sumiko Kanegae4, Emma Hodges5
1Shizuoka University; 2Matsuzaki Town; 3Haruka Community Palliative Care Support Center; 4Hiramatsu Home Care Clinic; 5Compassionate Communities UK
In Japan, demographic aging and decrease in population are going on in a significant manner. Social isolation of the elderly is one of the most serious social issues with changes in household structure. In rural areas it is difficult to secure enough medical professionals and caregivers with population concentration into major cities. New social ideas are needed to modify the governmental policy measure ‘community-based integrated care systems’ and the idea of Compassionate Cities and Communities (CC) is attracting more attention.
Against this background we will share the ideas and practices of emerging CC in rural areas in Japan and their partnerships with CC in England. Participants, who are interested in community building in rural areas or exploring initial stages as well as current state of CC in non-European or East Asian contexts, will enjoy opportunities to enhance their understanding of CC and meet with new partners.
Compassionate Communities Japan (CC-JP) was launched at the Japanese Society for Hospice and Home Care Conference in October 2023. There is now a CC-JP network meeting virtually each month with over 30 regular participants and several areas of Japan are starting to get involved in CC-JP activities. There is also a growing movement of CC-JP for Young Adults who recognise the importance of compassionate communities for their age group too.
This proposed workshop consists of 4 short presentations, followed by dialogues with participants. The introductory presentation will be delivered by a Japanese philosopher, who translated Allan Kellehear’s Compassionate Cities, Public Health and End-of-life Care into Japanese in 2022. In the second presentation the mayor of a small town will share the basic ideas and experiences to develop the first compassionate town in Japan. In the third presentation social worker of local community palliative care support center will share her path-breaking CC activities getting patients, (bereaved) families, friends, and neighbors involved and encouraging social sectors to take part. The last presentation will be delivered by the Development Director of CC-UK, who has initiated a learning exchange between compassionate cities/towns in UK and Japan. At the end we will have dialogues with participants on initiating CC in non-European social-cultural contexts as well as the significance of cross-cultural CC partnership.
