"Make institutions more like home, care like life" Japanese retired uncle joins hands with young people to create a symbiotic community by the sea   In order to promote the "hodgepodge" symbiotic community, the Buddhist garden that has received high attention in Japan, from Xienji Temple, Share Kanazawa to Xingzenji Temple, each community is based on the spirit of "social inclusion" (social inclusion), but their respective Show different faces. It is the latest masterpiece of their series of symbiotic communities. The chief helmsman of this project is Mr. Yu Muraoka. Five years ago, he accepted the invitation of Xiong Gu Liangcheng, the chairman of the Fozi Garden, to serve as the special director of the Fozi Garden. He was the second in command after the chairman of the Xionggu. leadership positions in care and care institutions. "But in fact, what I wanted to do at the beginning was a child care service." Muraoka Yu recalled. He studied social work in college, and after graduation, he worked in a child care institution, which is similar to an orphanage in Taiwan, with about 50 children. Although this job satisfied his desire to take care of children, it also served him well. During this period of work, Muraoka Yu gradually realized that such a collective growth process would make it difficult for children in institutions to lead ordinary lives and even establish their own families in the future, so he decided to leave and work in ordinary companies. "But I still have a passion for social work, and my dream is to create a group home for children." Thirty years ago, in the 1990s of the last century, all care for the so-called vulnerable groups was collective and institutional. Muraoka Yu's idea sounds very unique and novel. Later, although the children’s group home was not completed, a local government wanted to build a group home for the elderly, and came to him to take charge, “Because I wanted to build a group home for children, I declined at first, but after many discussions Only agree." Because he didn’t know much about senior care services, after deciding to take over this task, Muraoka Yu visited and studied everywhere, especially the special care institutions for the elderly, and gradually developed his own unique ideas and practices.   The original "unit care" model makes institutions more like home and care more like life If you are in the long-term care industry and are familiar with the Japanese model, you must have heard the term "unit care". The "unit care" model introduced from Japan has become very popular in Taiwan's long-term care institutions in recent years, and it can almost be said to have become a model. Basically, this is to use the redesign of space to create a living environment with a more sense of life. For example, in a residential institution, several housing units are integrated into one unit, and the unit has a common living room, living room, and even a kitchen, creating feeling of home; this can also affect the way care is provided, for example, care providers and care recipients interact naturally, the former don’t wear uniforms, the latter have no school schedule, living in the same space as family, Make nursing homes feel more like homes and less like hospitals. "The unit care model was thought up by me and my partner at the time. Moreover, this design was inspired by children!" Muraoka Yu said. Thirty years ago, the care of the elderly in Japan was mostly designed around the medical model, focusing on the efficiency of providing caregivers, completely ignoring the thinking of the care recipients, and lacking personalized design. For example: when eating, the elders are asked to eat together quickly, and the plate is taken away when the time is up, regardless of whether they have finished eating; or Japanese people like to take a bath, but the elders in the institution not only cannot enjoy the fun of bathing, They don't even have the dignity to take a good bath, because the way they bathe is to sit in a row and let the staff wash them with water. "Seeing these scenes shocked me a lot! I feel that the environment in which the elderly are cared for is quite bad, and I must find a way to change it." Muraoka Yu said that his past experience in child care institutions made him realize that the care of children is more based on the lifestyle model, but the care of the elderly is based on the medical model. "At that time, the global practice was similar. Elderly care is mostly based on medical care, but I want to create a life-oriented care model. Therefore, I decided to introduce the life model into the care of the elderly.” The idea of ​​"unit care" began to sprout from here. In 1997, he founded a brand-new special care institution, from hardware to software, from scratch, to implement step by step how to make the living environment and care mode of the elderly more life-like.   Institutions are not like institutions, staff are not like staff, unique practices attract attention To increase the sense of life, in addition to redesigning the space, how people interact with the elderly is also very important. Specifically, their staff will dine with the elderly, just like family members, allowing the elderly to choose what they want to eat; they can also go to the bath with the staff. In addition, because he used to manage group houses, it was difficult to operate only on the support subsidies provided by the government, so he increased his income by operating wood processing products in addition, and also provided job opportunities for the elderly, selling items Includes wooden furniture, wooden balconies, etc. The operating philosophy and atmosphere of the whole organization is to let the parties make their own choices as much as possible. Such an idea was rare at the time. It was the first to draw attention to this approach, and it has now become the standard model of care in Japan. Muraoka Yu came to Fozi Garden 5 years ago as an executive director, and 3 years ago he was in charge of the "Wajima Kabulet" project and served as the chief helmsman. He lives in Nagano Prefecture, and it takes four and a half hours to drive to Wajima at the fastest, so he usually drives to Wajima early in the morning on Monday and does not return to Nagano until Friday.   Leading the "Wajima Kabulet" project, combining youth power to push the symbiotic community to a new height The "Wajima Kabulet" symbiosis project won the Good Design Award for the Buddha Garden again in 2018. This latest version of the local symbiosis project started from the renovation of two old houses and expanded to a wider range in the community. It also includes more objects and users, and one of the most important partners is JOCA. The full name of JOCA is "Japan Overseas Cooperative Association", an organization with a long history in Japan. Since the 1960s, Japan has been sending young volunteers overseas to assist developing countries in community service. After returning to Japan, these people still hope to continue their learning, experience and enthusiasm in volunteering overseas. Therefore, the first batch of volunteers returning to China Founded JOCV (the predecessor of JOCA) in 1969, and turned the service object to Japan. Every year, a large number of young Japanese volunteers return to China from overseas, and get life-long nourishment from this journey. Mr. Yuya Ryosei, the founder of Buddhist Garden, is one of them. When he was young, he worked in the Dominican Republic for two years. The experience during this time has influenced him all his life, and even provided the key thinking elements when he created the "hodgepodge" symbiotic model of the Buddha Garden. Now that he is the chairman of JOCA, he is more actively thinking about how to make such a group of outstanding talents a driving force for Japan's development. ​    

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