June 22, 2019 ALA Annual Conference

Library makes the dementiafriendly community whereeveryone lives happily

Tottori Prefectural Library
Information and Consultation
Division
Hiroyo Matsuda

NUMBER OF DEMENTIA PATIENTS IN JAPANMINISTRY OF HEALTH, LABOUR, AND WELFARE (2012)

5 Million
Expected to reach 7M people by 2025
Around 1 out of 5 people 65＋ years of age isaffected
Dementia is a common disease that can affect anyone

Tottori Prefecture●Population: 560,852 people（as of Aug 1, 2018) *1

Least populated prefecture in Japan●Population 65 years old & above: 30.4 % *2
Tottori Prefecture*1) “Tottori Prefecture Population Estimate” Tottori
Prefecture Regional Development Department*2) “Annual Report of population Estimates"
10.01.16 Statistic Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications

Tottori Prefecture
Tottori
Prefecture
Library

4 cities,14 towns, and one village
30 neighborhood libraries in total
4

Tottori Prefectural Library’s Medical Treatment
and Health Information Services

Set up 2006
External Reviewing Committee
Two Patients Associations
Tottori Medical Association
Tottori Nursing Association
Tottori University Library
Tottori Prefecture Medical
Policy Division• Etc.
•••••

Tottori Medical Treatment and HealthInformation Service Network
Tottori Prefecture
Medical Policy Div.
Senior Citizens Welfare Div.

Tottori University
Medical LibraryCentralHospital
MedicalAssociation

Nursing
AssociationTottori PrefecturalLibraryOur activities
1. Setting up a special cornerin the Library
2. Training staff to be dementia supporters

3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” classes
4. Supporting dementia patients and families
5. Getting everyone involved

1. Special Corner in the Library
Medical Treatment and Health Information
Developed
reliablecollection withthe help of
external review
groupbooks,
databases,
info. ofpatientsgroups, etc.

1. Special Corner in the LibraryBooks on “Living with Illness”

Accounts of sufferers and their families.
Categorized by disease name.

1. Special Corner in the Library

Dementia Related Exhibits
Let’s learn more about
dementia to become asupportive community!

September 21st is World
Alzheimer Day:
Let’s make September
World Alzheimer Month!
Let’s make Tottori aneven better Dementiafriendly community!

Our activities
1. Setting up a special corner in the Library

2. Training staff to be dementia
supporters
3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” classes
4. Supporting dementia patients and families
5. Getting everyone involved

2. Training Staff to Be Dementia Supporters
People with Dementia visiting the Library
Yell at librarians
Ask the same question
over and overTraining helped us
understand:How dementia patients are feeling.
How we should interact with them.
How we should deal with difficult situations.

2. Training Staff to Be Dementia Supporters

In 2010, 31 attendees
In 2017, 44 attendees(All staff of the Prefectural Library andsome from neighborhood libraries)

All attendees received an orange wristband
Symbol of supporters
Wearers offer support to dementia
patients and their families

2. Training Staff to Be Dementia Supporters

The Orange NetworkProject TeamOur activities
1. Setting up a special corner in the Library

2. Training staff to be dementia supporters

3.Promoting “Reading Aloud”
classes
4. Supporting dementia patients and families
5. Getting everyone involved

3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” Classes“Stimulate yourBrain!
Let’s Read AloudTogether”

Since 2012

3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” Classes

Spreading outside
the Library3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” Classes
Started the “Tottori Reading Aloud Forum” in 2017
Initiative by Tottori Prefectural Library.
Asked Tottori University to research how effective the reading
aloud classes are.
Tottori University worked with a nursing home to carry out theresearch.

3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” Classes

Tottori
Prefecture
Newsletter“Reading Aloud”
has been proven tobe effective fordementia
prevention.

OUR ACTIVITIES
1. Setting up a special corner in the Library

2. Training staff to be dementia supporters
3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” classes

4.Supporting dementia sufferers
and their families
5. Getting everyone involved

4. Support Dementia sufferers &their Families
Worked withthe “DementiaPatients andFamily SupportGroup” since2006

Tottori PrefecturalLibrary

NEWSLETTER OF
DEMENTIA PATIENTSSUPPORT GROUP

Neighborhood libraries

Information on how to join the patient
support group and proceeding reports
from the group are valuable.

4. Support Dementia sufferers &their Families
Doctor’s Lecture on“Using library materials topractice the reminiscencemethod”
Use old photos,
school books,
picture books, andother historicalmaterials
Jointly organized by theprefectural library andneighborhood libraries

4. Support Dementia sufferers &their Families

ORANGE NETWORK TOTTORI 2019
WORKSHOP PLANNED FOR JULY!
•Dementia sufferers and their families•Dementia support group members•Professionals in the field•Librarians
Discuss how to develop a dementia-friendlysociety

OUR ACTIVITIES
1. Setting up a special corner in the Library

2. Training staff to be dementia supporters
3. Promoting “Reading Aloud” classes

4. Supporting dementia patients and families

5. Getting everyone involved

5. Getting Everyone Involved
Orange Café (Dementia Café)
July 1, 2018

Tottori Prefectural Library Courtyard

5. Getting Everyone Involved

People got the opportunity to hear
the story of a patient who authored“It’s OK to get dementia!

5. Getting Everyone Involved
ＲＵＮ ＴＯＭＯ TOTTORI 2018
Dementia patients, their families, support personnel, librarians, and the generalpublic took part in a relay race

Governor Hirai joined the race andparticipants crossed the finish line with him!

At the finish line, the Library
displayed related books andmaterials:
Diaries written by dementiapatients
Home care center information
Library brochures

Let’s make a dementia-friendly community!
『本人にとってのよりよい暮らしガイド』

What can the Library do?

発行元：東京都健康長寿医療センター

製作協力：JDWG

THANK YOU!

Please comeand visit!

Tottori Prefectural Library

Library of the Year2006 2016