Because that’s, what these elderly needs, care and attention from their loved ones, more so than older adults who don’t have dementia, from the Newspapers, translated…
Taiwan was selected as the first stop of the Japanese “RUN TOMO” walking with the elderly families with dementia, and this year, Taiwan had hosted its own, “Run Companionship Taiwan”, the Hsinbei City government walked with the league, with the daycare centers of demented elderly, invited over a thousand of the patients and their families to walk along, and, the walkers split up into six teams, and walked along the areas around the community, showing that it’s, important, to accompany the demented elderly persons.
to raise the awareness, activities like this are happening all over the world, photo from online…
The deputy mayor of the city of Hsinbei, Lu also walked along yesterday, she’d stated, that there is, an estimated over 38,000 individuals who are diagnosed, and it’s, irreversible, and it’s, a huge burden to the families, but, the medications aren’t the only treatment measures, TOMO in Japanese means “companionship”, meaning, that other than having their families accompanying, having the community there was also
The Homecare Strategy League’s C.E.O., Lin believed, that other than hospitalization, company IS the key, to help the demented elderly persons. This year’s “Companionship Run Taiwan” not only involved the runners, but also the cyclists, the motorists, the drivers, the busses, also the ships too, hoping to pass the ideals of accompanying the demented elderly in every way possible.
And so, this is an event, that’s, making people aware of the importance of companionship for our demented elderly, because they’d, needed us to look after them, and, if only the families are working hard, without the correspondences from the outside community, then, caretaking of the demented elderly wouldn’t be complete.