The dementia-friendly dandelion seeds, fluttering in the wind like stars, deeply plough Ataabu everywhere!
I am the head of the Nursing Department of Asia University. Before I contact the USR program, I was an active nursing teacher on campus. After entering the USR program, I realized that teaching practice is far-reaching and became the leader of inter-professional colleges, departments and faculties in Asia University to deeply cultivate Taichung Wu-Feng. "Ataabu" is the phrase "Ataabu" of the Pingpu group. It is the old name of the Wu-Feng District in Taichung today. I know "Ataabu" when I started to learn about the general course of "Wu-Feng Learning and Learning Wu-Feng" at Asia University. I have deeply felt that Asia University's humanistic innovation and social practice atmosphere has been built up by connecting to local art and culture in Wu-Feng for many years. In recent years, College of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health in Asia University and an affiliated hospital have been established, and medical care teams have moved in to form characteristic caring energy for the health of local communities.
For teachers and students in Asia University, "Ataabu" is like our second hometown. The local population living on this land is only 65,148. It is the smallest population in the Tun District of Taichung City. The young and elderly population accounts for nearly 28%. The aging index is increasing year by year up to 130%, indicating that the elderly population in Wu-Feng is much larger than the young population. As age is older, the prevalence of dementia is higher. There is also a gradual increase in dementia elders in all district of Wu-Feng. People generally misunderstand or do not understand dementia. In order to enable our elders to live in Wu-Feng healthy and settle down and to take care of themselves autonomously, "Prevention and Delay of Dementia" and "Friendly Dementia" are health promotion and long-term care issues that Asia University and Wu-Feng must join hands in. Under the cooperation of teachers and students in various inter-professional fields such as nursing, medicine and health, informatics, humanity, social work and the local industries, the first phase of "Avoiding Dementia Innovation and Integrated Care Action Plan (seed type)" and the second phase of "Creating a Dementia-Friendly Community for the Elderly Project (Sprout Type)" have been practiced through a problem/project-based learning loop to promote more than 30 courses with features of teaching innovation and local connection. After more than three years of intensive cultivation, teachers and students deeply practiced in the community for health creation of Wu-Feng to devote ourselves.
I still remembered when our USR team enters the Wu-Feng community for the first time, the elders thought that we were here to lead singing and doing handicrafts, and demonstrated lack of interest, and even late. Now we have formed a partnership with our local elders. Every time, the elders enthusiastically participated in our activities, even people from Dali and Feng-yuan across the districts called to express their willingness to participate and cooperate. Our Grandma Chen said, "When I get old, I am very afraid of dementia. Being a patient with dementia one day would increase the burden on my children. Now we know what to do to prevent dementia. More activities like this would be helpful to us!" Volunteer Mama Lin also said, "...the elderly was lack of interest in all activities of communities before. Since you came, the more elders like to come out and do activities. In addition to giving the elders opportunities to make friends, it can also reassure the family!" The 81-year-old grandma Wang also echoed, "we were from the next community. I heard that the game is very fun, so we come here together to play. The more we play, the best we feel! Some activities like doing handicrafts were felt nothing... This kind of activity of "opening wisdom" should be more!". I deeply feel the local enthusiasm and needed.
The Asia University USR project is to help Wu-Feng achieve a sustainable, prompting wisdom and dementia-friendly life. We practice (1) potential dementia assessment and tracking plan, and then refer suspected cases to be diagnosed; (2) dementia literacy rooted in an education plan to deliver dementia-friendly knowledge; (3) Cognition upgrade service plan to develop the Mediterranean meals, board games, nursing farms, aerobic dancing, stress-relieving workshops, music and garden therapy and so on for enriching the elderly and dementia-friendly services; (4) Smart assistance plans for dementia-friendly families to develop the digitization of case management and home services, "Let's play App" and aerobic exercise augmented reality; So far, about 150 activities have been held, and then 4,700 local people and 1,300 teachers and students participated in these activities. Students have grown in "being sensitive to the degeneration and needs of the elders", "improving the practical ability to handle activities for the elders", "planning ability to dementia prevention projects", "improving interaction with the elders" and "strengthening the ability to apply professional knowledge and skills".
Listening to students' feedback is the driving force for teachers to move forward. Student Xiao-hui said that she never imagined one day she could get into the local Wu-Feng community and interact with the elders, and through field inspections, she learned about the story of the land of Wu-Feng; She was impressed that developing dementia-friendly materials with different features in the "Introduction to Long-term Care" course, and practicing dementia-friendly health education projects in National Dali junior and senior high school. In the moment of seeing the high school students focused and eagerly asking questions, her heart was touched and felt that this is "the power of knowledge", and the knowledge we learned can be applied! Watching the students' step by step grow, they are the dandelion seeds, fluttering in the wind like stars, and deeply ploughing Wu-Feng everywhere, and then demonstrate the spirit of university social practice.
For teachers and students in Asia University, "Ataabu" is like our second hometown. The local population living on this land is only 65,148. It is the smallest population in the Tun District of Taichung City. The young and elderly population accounts for nearly 28%. The aging index is increasing year by year up to 130%, indicating that the elderly population in Wu-Feng is much larger than the young population. As age is older, the prevalence of dementia is higher. There is also a gradual increase in dementia elders in all district of Wu-Feng. People generally misunderstand or do not understand dementia. In order to enable our elders to live in Wu-Feng healthy and settle down and to take care of themselves autonomously, "Prevention and Delay of Dementia" and "Friendly Dementia" are health promotion and long-term care issues that Asia University and Wu-Feng must join hands in. Under the cooperation of teachers and students in various inter-professional fields such as nursing, medicine and health, informatics, humanity, social work and the local industries, the first phase of "Avoiding Dementia Innovation and Integrated Care Action Plan (seed type)" and the second phase of "Creating a Dementia-Friendly Community for the Elderly Project (Sprout Type)" have been practiced through a problem/project-based learning loop to promote more than 30 courses with features of teaching innovation and local connection. After more than three years of intensive cultivation, teachers and students deeply practiced in the community for health creation of Wu-Feng to devote ourselves.
I still remembered when our USR team enters the Wu-Feng community for the first time, the elders thought that we were here to lead singing and doing handicrafts, and demonstrated lack of interest, and even late. Now we have formed a partnership with our local elders. Every time, the elders enthusiastically participated in our activities, even people from Dali and Feng-yuan across the districts called to express their willingness to participate and cooperate. Our Grandma Chen said, "When I get old, I am very afraid of dementia. Being a patient with dementia one day would increase the burden on my children. Now we know what to do to prevent dementia. More activities like this would be helpful to us!" Volunteer Mama Lin also said, "...the elderly was lack of interest in all activities of communities before. Since you came, the more elders like to come out and do activities. In addition to giving the elders opportunities to make friends, it can also reassure the family!" The 81-year-old grandma Wang also echoed, "we were from the next community. I heard that the game is very fun, so we come here together to play. The more we play, the best we feel! Some activities like doing handicrafts were felt nothing... This kind of activity of "opening wisdom" should be more!". I deeply feel the local enthusiasm and needed.
The Asia University USR project is to help Wu-Feng achieve a sustainable, prompting wisdom and dementia-friendly life. We practice (1) potential dementia assessment and tracking plan, and then refer suspected cases to be diagnosed; (2) dementia literacy rooted in an education plan to deliver dementia-friendly knowledge; (3) Cognition upgrade service plan to develop the Mediterranean meals, board games, nursing farms, aerobic dancing, stress-relieving workshops, music and garden therapy and so on for enriching the elderly and dementia-friendly services; (4) Smart assistance plans for dementia-friendly families to develop the digitization of case management and home services, "Let's play App" and aerobic exercise augmented reality; So far, about 150 activities have been held, and then 4,700 local people and 1,300 teachers and students participated in these activities. Students have grown in "being sensitive to the degeneration and needs of the elders", "improving the practical ability to handle activities for the elders", "planning ability to dementia prevention projects", "improving interaction with the elders" and "strengthening the ability to apply professional knowledge and skills".
Listening to students' feedback is the driving force for teachers to move forward. Student Xiao-hui said that she never imagined one day she could get into the local Wu-Feng community and interact with the elders, and through field inspections, she learned about the story of the land of Wu-Feng; She was impressed that developing dementia-friendly materials with different features in the "Introduction to Long-term Care" course, and practicing dementia-friendly health education projects in National Dali junior and senior high school. In the moment of seeing the high school students focused and eagerly asking questions, her heart was touched and felt that this is "the power of knowledge", and the knowledge we learned can be applied! Watching the students' step by step grow, they are the dandelion seeds, fluttering in the wind like stars, and deeply ploughing Wu-Feng everywhere, and then demonstrate the spirit of university social practice.
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