Analysis: The Nursing Home That Changed People's Lives

The Nursing Home That Changed People’s Lives

Kiyota Emi was affected when she first time visited her grandmother who was in a Japanese nursing care. “I was so uncomfortable,” Kiyota says. “I could see that my grandmother and most of the other patients were just existing there; They had no purpose; they were just waiting for release.” Kiyota’s grandmother loved to gardening, but in that place she does not have any flowers or garden. The facility only allows the patients and. Staffs of these facilities normally calls the patients by their surname or by the room number where they are residing. That nursing home changed Kiyota’s life. Just after she the routine and the environment of what her grandmother was facing who is in the facility because

of senile dementia. She decided to quit the job and do something for her grandmother instead. “I knew I had to do something for elders” she says. “I just didn’t know what.”
Ibasho

The previous description of the person and the situation happened 15 years ago. Now at the age of 41 Kiyota Emi earned multidisciplinary degrees in environment and behaviour science, architecture and horticulture therapy. She is one of leading environmental gerontologist controlling her own non-profit consulting farm called Ibasho. The word ibasho means “a place where you can feel like yourself.” It’s a Japanese concept which empathise same kind of homely atmosphere which patient can see and fills in this place which was not to be seen in any nursing homes. Working to correct that problem is Kiyota’s mission. Her goal is to change the nursing home negligence towards the elderly patients and gloomy environment which de motives the patients there. Ibasho correlates to a movement in the United States known as “person centred care.”