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I care for an old aged person.

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Tuesday, July 3 , 2018

 My mother is 83 years old now.

She has broken the backbone twice and also get weak the thigh, so she can't walk well.

 

She can't support her body with the help of  a stick only, then I always catch her in my arms because she stumbles, and we go out.

 

She has a poor memory. She forgets contents of meal she ate just now. So I gave her a notebook to write contents of meals and I let her write.

 

Even if I suggested going for walk or writing something, she didn't have will-power before. I thought she became bedridden at this rate. She has been going to day service facility for a year, and she changed her mind like that.(day service は和製英語

 

It was a great difficult thing I let her decide going to day service facility.

 

We began to fold a piece of paper  everyday into the figure of a crane recently.The crane which mother made is the front,  the back is me.

 

現在、私の母は83歳です。

腿の筋肉の衰えと2回も腰痛骨折しているせいもあり、歩きが乏しいです。杖だけでは自分を支えきれず、転びそうになるのを私が腕を抱えて外出します。記憶も乏しく、今食べ終わった食事の内容を覚えていません。なので「お食事ノート」なるものを作り都度の食事内容を書かせています。

 

以前は、散歩やノートに書いたりする作業を勧めても億劫で気力がありませんでした。このままでは寝たきりになると私は心配していました。しかし、デイサービスに通い始めて1年になるのですが、このような心の変化がありました。

 

デイサービスに通うことを決心させるまでが超難関だったんですけどね。

 

最近、家で折り鶴を毎日1つ折る事を始めました。奥は私、手前は母が折った鶴です。