Assessment of Dementia-Friendly Communities
How to assess and promote dementia-friendliness in each community

11.00–12.30, Saturday 29 April 2017
Room D, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

32nd International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International

Dementia Friendly Japan InitiativeDFJIThe Japan Chapter of the World Young Leaders in DementiaWYLD-J
Alzheimer’s Association Japan (AAJ)Moderator: Miharu Nakanishi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)
Introduction
Yoshiyuki Kawano (University of Tsukuba/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)
Opening remarks
Yumiko Kaneko (AAJ-Niigata Branch, Japan)“Global Ageing and Dementia”
Ryoma Kayano (WHO Centre for Health Development, Japan)
Case study (Japan-1)“Development of indicators of dementia-friendliness of communities”
Toshiyuki Ojima (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan)
Case study (Japan-2)“A manual for assessment and reactions to be a dementia-friendly community”
Yoshiyuki Kawano (University of Tsukuba/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)
Case study (Japan-3)“Action and assessment to realize a dementia-friendly community in Kyoto and Uji”
Kazuyuki Hirao (Kyoto Bunkyo University/AAJ/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)
Case study (global case-1) and comments“Promotion of dementia-friendliness in communities ~ Examples from WYLD Network andCanada’s National Dementia Strategy Progress ~”Kristine Newman (Ryerson University/WYLD, Canada)
Case study (global case-2) and comments“Building Dementia Friendly Communities”
Jeremy Hughes (UK Alzheimer’s Society, UK)
Panel discussion
Moderator: Yoshiyuki Kawano (University of Tsukuba/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)
Closing remarks
Miharu Nakanishi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science/DFJI/WYLD-J, Japan)

Objectives of the workshop
Creating a dementia–friendly community can be realized and promoted when multisectoral collaborationand effort exist among all community members with diverse backgrounds. This workshop is aimed tounderstand how to assess and promote dementia–friendliness in a community in order to create andaccelerate such ideal collaboration.
(1) Reporters from various groups which have been working on the development of assessment indicators
share their experience and thoughts.
(2) The reporters will exchange views based on the topics provided in the 1st part and help the participants
understand the key points of the challenge in the creation and promotion of dementia–friendliness in acommunity and enrich their understanding of and approach to the dementia–friendliness.
The participants will learn a comprehensive perspective on the methodology of the assessment ofdementia–friendly communities and understand the necessity of potential and sustainable next steps tosteadily move forward on the creation and promotion of dementia–friendliness.

Chair
Yoshiyuki Kawano
Yoshiyuki Kawano, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor in Diversity
Division, Center for Diversity and Accessibility, Career Development, University of Tsukuba.
He received Master (2005) at Tokyo Gakugei University, Doctor (2012) of Disability
Sciences at University of Tsukuba, and has been engaging in research of care for people
living with dementia and their carers. His current research fields include assessment ofcognitive impairment, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, promoting
diversity and social inclusion for people living with dementia, and assessment ofdementia-friendly community in Japan. He is a member of Dementia Friendly Japan Initiative(DFJI) and World Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLD).

Speaker
Yumiko Kaneko
President, Niigata Branch, Alzheimer’s Association JapanADI 2017 Local Organizing Committee
I started to care my father in law 25 years ago, at that time, I had flustered and cried the wholetime, because I did not understand dementia. I found there were many carers in the samesituation. We established a branch in our prefecture, Niigata. Since then, for 21 years, wehave shared experiences and feelings with many family caregiver and person with dementia.
In addition, my husband suffered brain infarction in 2006, and I took my parents under mycare in 2011. Since then, I have been taking care of my husband and parents. Now, I amtaking care of my loved ones to relax myself as possible as I can. My motto is “Be tender toothers, and to be tenderer for myself” Sometimes I learned that we could laugh away thetough experience to change our point of view. How life is luxuriance and very pleasant!

Ryoma Kayano
Ryoma Kayano M.D. Technical Officer, WHO Centre for Health Development
Dr. Kayano is a professional staff of WHO Centre for Health Development and works fordifferent policy researches on UHC (Universal Health Coverage), Innovation and Ageing,
especially in terms of dementia as his background is psychiatry. Currently he is coordinating apolicy research project on dementia early detection and intervention in Kobe City. He also
works for disaster mental health as a focal point of health emergency at the centre. In 2011,
after Great East Japan Earthquake, he was dispatched to the disaster area as a member ofTokyo Metropolitan Mental Health Relief Team. He graduated from Nagasaki University
School of Medicine and worked for international NGO activities while he was a student.

Toshiyuki Ojima
Toshiyuki Ojima, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Department of Community Health andPreventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. He graduated from Jichi
Medical University (1987) and received Ph.D. (1995) at the same university. After carrier as aphysician, a director of Shitara Public Health Center, Aichi Prefecture, and a faculty of theuniversity, he was appointed to the present position (2006). His current research fields are
public health and epidemiology, including care prevention, healthy life expectancy, maternaland child health, and disaster preparedness. He is a principal investigator of the research ondeveloping Age-Friendly Cities to prevent and mitigate care load for dementia funded by theMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

Kazuyuki Hirao
Kazuyuki Hirao is a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist. After graduating from Kyoto
University in 1999, he worked as a resident at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital.
He became a psychiatrist at Kyoto University Hospital in 2001 and worked at Kyoto
Prefectural Rakunan Hospital in Uji from 2002 to 2004, where he met Dr Toshio Mori, aleading psychiatrist in the field of dementia in Kyoto and Uji. He engaged in research ofsocial cognition in schizophrenia using MRI at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto
University from 2004 to 2008, and got a PhD in 2008. He worked as a researcher at Instituteof Psychiatry, King's College London from 2008 to 2010. He had been an associate professor
at Kyoto Bunkyo University since 2010 and now is a professor at Kyoto Bunkyo University.
He has been exploring collaboration between neuroscience and psychotherapy, and is now
interested in subjective experiences and way of living of people with dementia, engaging inUji Dementia Action Alliance project.

Kristine Newman
Kristine Newman is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the Faculty ofCommunity Services, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr.
Newman’s program of research includes Knowledge Brokering, Youth relationships withpersons with Dementia, and Gerontechnology. She is a founding member of the World
Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLD) and sat on WYLD Steering Group Committee untilJanuary 2017. She is presently an Adviser to the WYLD Steering Group Committee.
Profile: http://www.ryerson.ca/nursing/faculty/bios/newman/Jeremy Hughes
Jeremy Hughes joined Alzheimer’s Society in November 2010. He is leading the charity in its
five year transformational strategy ‘New Deal on Dementia’ 2017-22. Jeremy co-chairs theDementia Friendly Communities Champions Group with top broadcaster Angela Rippon for
the UK Prime Minister. Jeremy was previously Chief Executive of Breakthrough BreastCancer where he was instrumental in providing visionary leadership, galvanising the charity's
research platform and its authority on campaigning and policy. Before that Jeremy was Headof External Affairs at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
His career in health and social care charities includes leadership posts at the British Red
Cross, Leonard Cheshire, Muscular Dystrophy and NCH Action for Children. Jeremy was thechair of National Voices 2009-14. He is currently the Co-chair of the UK Dementia Action
Alliance and chair of the Global Alzheimers and Dementias Action Alliance. He is also amember of the World Dementia Council. Jeremy was awarded the CBE, for services to older
people, in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015.

Miharu Nakanishi
Miharu Nakanishi, Ph.D. is a Chief Researcher in the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute ofMedical Science, and Team Leader of Mental Health and Nursing Research Team,
Mental Health Promotion Project. She received her bachelors (2000), Master (2002),and Doctor (2005) of Health Science degree at the University of Tokyo. She is a
registered nurse working in the area of dementia care research, and a member of World
Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLDs). The ongoing study has generated various
findings of palliative and end-of-life care for dementia.

Main Contributors of the workshopYoshiyuki Kawano1,2,4, Makoto Okada1,5, Miharu Nakanishi1,2,6, Naoko Hara2,3,7, Takehito Tokuda1,2,8,Masahiko Shoji1,9, Takaaki Kawakami1,101

Dementia Friendly Japan Initiative (DFJI)

2The Japan Chapter of the World Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLD-J)

3

Alzheimer’s Association Japan (AAJ)

4

University of Tsukuba

5

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

6

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

7

Niigata College of Nursing

8

Not-for-profit Organisation Dementia Friendship Club9International University of Japan

10

Maruho Co., Ltd.

Collaborators of the planning of the workshop
Chiho Oshima (Saitama Prefectural University/WYLD-J)
Jang Minyoung (Meiji Gakuin University/DFJI)
Katsuaki Tanaka (KOKUYO Co.,Ltd/DFJI)
Mitsunobu R Kano (Okayama University/Science Council of Japan/the Globle Young Academy/WYLD-J)
Miyae Yamakawa (OSAKA University/DFJI/WYLD-J)
Naomi Arakawa (Not-for-profit Organisation Musubi/DFJI)
Noriyo Washizu (Alzheimer’s Association Japan)
Tomoki Kaneko (Keio University/DFJI)

This workshop was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K17255.