The Makeup Therapy Methods, Putting the Memories Back into Life Again

not my photograph…

A method to help those who are diagnosed with dementia to remember more, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

Do you know, that putting on makeup can prevent dementia? The assistant manager of the Shiseido Limited, Lee pointed out, that opening up the lotion caps, drawing on the eyebrows, the eyeliners, are all fine motor movements, and that it can activate the brain, Japanese research showed, that as the elderly being cared continually put on makeup for three months’ time, they’d shown a stronger grip, and can even begin to put their own clothes on, loved looking into the mirrors more, and laughed more too, that the powers of “makeup therapy” shouldn’t be easily overlooked.

keeping up with one’s own appearances is very important in the elderly years too!  Not my photograph.

Lee said, that putting on the makeup makes people want to become more social, to go out more, to look in the mirrors, that three years ago, the company’s makeup specialists entered into the nursing home community to lecture on beautification techniques, to help the elderly put on makeup, at the same time, bring happiness to the elderly, they’d gotten into the organizations and hosted numerous beauty-tip seminars and bring joys into elderly’s lives. There was an elderly woman who refused to look in the mirror for a decade, seeing how the other elderly women around her becoming more beautiful after putting on the makeup, asked the workers to “bring me a mirror too”, and started smiling at her own reflection in the mirror.

And so, by putting forth this program, it’d allowed the elderly to become more activated in one’s own life, perhaps, before this program came into the nursing homes, the elderly woman may just sit in front of the television all day long, and go into their separate rooms to sit and stare at the walls, but, after this program got started, they’d become more interested in their own looks, they recalled how it felt, being beautiful, and that, was the primary drive for them, to get back into the scheme of things.