Interdisciplinary Studies Journal
Editoija
Pusa, Tiina
Niiniö, Hannele
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904306941
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904306941
Tiivistelmä
Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, vol. 2, no 1, 2012.
The roots of this conference book are based on the First Sendai – Finland seminar, which took place on March 4–12, 2006, in Japan, in the City of Sendai. The seminar was a start to annual events for the Active project called “Refurbishing Elderly Care,” which was a joint research and development project between Tohoku Fukushi University, Helsinki School of Economics, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, the City of Vantaa, the City of Espoo, and Tohoku Fukushi Corporation from Sendai.
The aim of the project was to share an understanding, which was elaborated from fact-based research, of tasks our public policy and social strategy choices should face in the area of elderly care, if they are to decrease social costs and improve efficiency in the provision of health care services. In the joint Active project, another target was to create innovations in health and social services that would be motivated by a desire to
provide a greater quality of the life by integrating expertise from a variety of professions and fields.
The Finnish delegation, which consisted of experts and professionals from the health and social welfare sector in Finland, visited for the first time Research Center 21’ and the nursing care facility Sendan-no-Oka. During the visit, we heard and saw a presentation about the Clinical Art method and how it was realized in the research center. We got to see how elderly people with dementia were activated by art. They built with their own hands different kinds of artistic things like pineapples or apples from paper or other materials. Everybody had in their heads an EEG apparatus (Electroencephalogram), which measured changes in their cerebral functions. The result was amazing. The old people reached a normal level of cerebral functioning during the
art session. So, every member of the Finnish delegation from Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki School of Economics, the City of Vantaa, and the City of Espoo saw with their own eyes how art promotes health and wellbeing. From that finding started a new project called Active Art, which is included in the Active project.
Active Art is a Finnish adaptation of the Japanese Clinical Art method. In Finland, Active Art was developed into a method named Encounter Art. The first pioneers in the development of Active Art to Encounter Art were Laurea University of Applied Sciences’ project manager Hannele Niiniö and senior lecturer Tiina Pusa; the City of Vantaa’s director for services for the elderly and the disabled Anna-Liisa Korhonen; and Tohoku Fukushi University’s assistant professor Taizo Oshiro. On behalf of the former coordinator of the project at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, I would like to extend my gratitude to the editors and writers for transforming the conference results into this publication.
Helena Erjanti
Vice President
Emerita
The roots of this conference book are based on the First Sendai – Finland seminar, which took place on March 4–12, 2006, in Japan, in the City of Sendai. The seminar was a start to annual events for the Active project called “Refurbishing Elderly Care,” which was a joint research and development project between Tohoku Fukushi University, Helsinki School of Economics, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, the City of Vantaa, the City of Espoo, and Tohoku Fukushi Corporation from Sendai.
The aim of the project was to share an understanding, which was elaborated from fact-based research, of tasks our public policy and social strategy choices should face in the area of elderly care, if they are to decrease social costs and improve efficiency in the provision of health care services. In the joint Active project, another target was to create innovations in health and social services that would be motivated by a desire to
provide a greater quality of the life by integrating expertise from a variety of professions and fields.
The Finnish delegation, which consisted of experts and professionals from the health and social welfare sector in Finland, visited for the first time Research Center 21’ and the nursing care facility Sendan-no-Oka. During the visit, we heard and saw a presentation about the Clinical Art method and how it was realized in the research center. We got to see how elderly people with dementia were activated by art. They built with their own hands different kinds of artistic things like pineapples or apples from paper or other materials. Everybody had in their heads an EEG apparatus (Electroencephalogram), which measured changes in their cerebral functions. The result was amazing. The old people reached a normal level of cerebral functioning during the
art session. So, every member of the Finnish delegation from Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki School of Economics, the City of Vantaa, and the City of Espoo saw with their own eyes how art promotes health and wellbeing. From that finding started a new project called Active Art, which is included in the Active project.
Active Art is a Finnish adaptation of the Japanese Clinical Art method. In Finland, Active Art was developed into a method named Encounter Art. The first pioneers in the development of Active Art to Encounter Art were Laurea University of Applied Sciences’ project manager Hannele Niiniö and senior lecturer Tiina Pusa; the City of Vantaa’s director for services for the elderly and the disabled Anna-Liisa Korhonen; and Tohoku Fukushi University’s assistant professor Taizo Oshiro. On behalf of the former coordinator of the project at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, I would like to extend my gratitude to the editors and writers for transforming the conference results into this publication.
Helena Erjanti
Vice President
Emerita