Rebecca Jennison
About
I have been living in Kyoto for 45 years and retired from Kyoto Seika University, Department of Humanities at the end of March 2020. I am currently working on a number of projects involving women artists, gender equality, and peace studies. Since retirement, I have become more involved with helping “senior” friends who are dealing with various kinds of health and “care” issues and have heard many say that there is a need for more dialogue and exchange. Through this workshop, I hope to help create a forum where we can share stories and practical information with others at this conference and with members of the Japan Association of Intercultural Families (国際結婚を考える会) who are exploring ways to spend their senior years in Japan.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.
