Decision-making support for people with dementia to build a dementia-friendly community through collaboration with industry

Masami Hiyama, Jin Narumoto

Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

In order to build a dementia-friendly community, collaboration with industry is essential because people with dementia living in the community use services and purchase products from private companies.　Here, we introduced collaboration with financial institutions to provide better service for older adults including people suffering from dementia.　Evaluation of capacity to contract and decision-making support are applied to the operation of financial institution.　We realized that it is important to customize medical and psychological knowledge into each industry through the experience.　Decision-making support in various situations would promote dementia-friendly community.

Address correspondence to Dr. Masami Hiyama, Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine （465 Kajii-cho, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan）