Japan

Meeting centers in Japan began on July 19th, 2021. Tomyuki Yabuki, Associate professor and manager of the Center for Dementia Care Research and Practices at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai in Japan, received a national research grant to start up and evaluate 10 model Meeting Centres in Japan.

Meeting Center Tsubasa

Organization: Miyagi Branch of the Association of Families with Dementia

Contact person: Eiko Wako

Contact: 2F Miyagi Social Welfare Hall, 3-7-4 Honmachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai City,980-0014

Place of the meeting: Nankodai Civic Center, Izumi-ku, Sendai City

Frequency: 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month

That was a success, from 2023, it is planned in about 300 municipalities and municipal governments throughout Japan.  

Meeting Center Tamoni

Organization: Specified Nonprofit Corporation Community Support Net

Contact person: Tomofumi Matsubara

Contact: 2F ALPA, 3-5 Chuo, Komagane City, Nagano, 399-4112

Place of the meeting: Tsudoi no Ie (a.k.a. House of Gathering)

Frequency: once a month

Meeting Center Uji

Organization: Uji City Welfare Service Public Corporation

Contact person: Yuichiro jawakita

Contact: 1-3 Uji-Biwa, Uji City,611-0021

Place of the meeting: Held at various locations

Frequency: once a month

Omuta Meeting Center

Organization: Social Welfare Corporation Araigusa-kai Small-Scale Multifunctional Home Takatori-no-ie

Contact person: Yuki Umesaki,
Shinpei Saruwatari

Contact: 4-185 Rekiki, Omuta City,837-0924

Place of the meeting: Held at various locations

Frequency: once a month

Meeting Center Medaka no Kai

Organization: Social Welfare Service Corporation Shinseijukai Mushroom Community Collaboration Office

Contact person: Yuta Suzuki

Contact: 2-14-3 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,102-0083

Place of the meeting: Mushroom Café

Frequency: once a month

Meeting Center Nago Motto

Organization: Community Support Section, Community Welfare Division, Imizu City

Contact person: Community Support Section, Community Welfare Division, Imizu City

Contact: 410-1, Shindaihatsu, Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture,939-0294

Place of the meeting: Emergency Medicine Citizen Exchange Plaza
1F Kitchen Studio

Frequency: once a month

Parking Center Iizuka

Organization: Medical Corporation Toyonagakai Iizuka Memorial Hospital Fukuoka Dementia Medical Center

Contact person: Sekimi Egashira

Contact: 1452-2 Tsurumio, IizukaCity, Fukuoka,820-0014

Place of the meeting: Medical Corporation Toyonagakai Iizuka Memorial Hospital Fukuoka Dementia Medical Center

Frequency: once a month

Borderless with dementia

Organization: borderless with dementia

Contact person: Fumiki Kito

Contact: Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City

Place of the meeting:  Nagoya City

Frequency: once a month

Meeting Center Yomokai

Organization: Iwaki City Health and Welfare Department, Community Comprehensive Care Promotion Division, Project Promotion Section

Contact person: Iwaki City Health and Welfare Department, Community Comprehensive Care Promotion Division, Project Promotion Section

Contact: General Health and Welfare Center 191 Yomokida, Kosaka-cho, Uchigo, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima,973-8408

Place of the meeting:  General Health and Welfare Center 3F Nutrition Guidance Room

Frequency: once a month

Meeting Center Hiratsuka

Organization: General Incorporated Association Eijuan SHIGETA House Project

Contact person: Kosuke Uehara

Contact: SHIGETA House Project, 28-27 Tachino-cho, HiratsukaCity, Kanagawa,254-0046

Place of the meeting:  SHIGETA House

Frequency: once a month

You can see detailed case studies on their special website (Japanese). https://www.dcnet.gr.jp/support/research/center/meeting_center_support/#

The evaluation of the first 10 meeting centers was a huge success! From 2023, it is planned in about 1700 municipalities and municipal governments throughout Japan.