Amanda Gillis Furutaka
About
I have been living in Kyoto for over 33 years and working at Kyoto Sangyo University for nearly 30 years. Although I am originally from the UK, and have lived in several countries, Kyoto is very much my home. As I approach retirement, I would like to be part of a support network together with other non-Japanese who are reaching the same stage of life in Kansai. English is my first language and my Japanese is passable, but language skills can fade with age and mental decline, so providing information and linguistic help for the aging is something I would like to work on with others. I would also like to organize outdoor activities, such as walking and hiking, while we can still enjoy such things!Sessions
Roundtable Growing Old at Home in Japan: Issues that Long-Term Non-Japanese Residents are Facing [Atelier – discussion sur le thème « Vieillir au Japon : Les problèmes auxquels sont confrontés les résidents retraités non japonais » (en anglais – français – japonais)] more
Sat, May 21, 12:30-13:45 Asia/Tokyo
This round-table discussion will welcome non-Japanese residents who have made Japan their home and plan to spend the rest of their lives here together with professionals and volunteers working in elderly care. An international group of Kyoto residents plans to set up a support network and would like to reach out to more people, especially speakers of languages other than English or Japanese, and to find out the issues that people are dealing with and their concerns. The round-table discussion will be in English, Japanese, and French and will cover topics such as: i) living on a pension, ii) physical and mental health care, iii) social activities, iv) the kaigo 介護care system, v) examples of different types of care homes, vi) care services, vii) home hospice systems, and other topics that participants wish to raise. We want to work together to gather and share information, such as websites and books, and provide support for one another through this initial discussion and the network we create.
