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The world is ageing, and nowhere is this trend easier to see than in Japan, where 1 in 10 people are over the age of 80 and almost 30% of the population is over the age of 65, according to a study published in 2023 by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Who will provide care to the growing number of frail and cognitively impaired older people in this historically unprecedented reality?
To explore this topic, The Japan Foundation, London presents a screening of the documentary I Go Gaga: Welcome Home, Mom, accompanied by an introductory talk and post-film discussion led by Dr Jason Danely, Reader in Anthropology and Chair of the Healthy Ageing and Care Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Network at Oxford Brookes University.
About the Film
I Go Gaga: Welcome Home, Mom is the sequel to director Nobutomo Naoko’s 2018 hit documentary I Go Gaga, My Dear. It is a record of the director’s own mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in her mid-eighties and the director’s nonagenarian father who continues to take care of his wife. Since the first film, the mother’s dementia has progressed and upon having a stroke, she begins hospital life. The ageing father goes to visit the mother every day at the hospital and continues to shower his wife with love and hope. A gently observed story about a fate that could happen to any family living in an ageing society.
About the Speaker
Dr Jason Danely is a Reader in Anthropology and Chair of the Healthy Ageing & Care Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Network at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of over 20 publications, including his most recent book, Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England (2022). His research expertise relates to cultural understanding and experiences of ageing and care in Japan, where he has at various times taught, studied, performed theatre, travelled, meditated and raised children, over the last twenty years.
This event is held as part of The Japan Foundation Seminar Series at Japan House London organized by The Japan Foundation, London with support from Japan House London.
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