November 29, 2018
The presentation by the Student Association for Policy on Nursing and Medical Care (SAPnmc), "Designing Your Own End of Life: Building an End-of-Life Planning Support System," won third place in the poster division of the "12th SFC Student Research and Activity Presentation" at the Open Research Forum 2018.
The presenters were second-year SAPnmc students Saeka Tamura, Sotaro Shimada, Keika Hirakawa, and Momoko Yamamoto.
Japan is in the midst of a super-aged society, and there are growing concerns about an increase in people unable to find end-of-life care and lonely deaths due to a shortage of home care and facilities. SAPnmc focused on End-of-Life Planning, which allows individuals to consider their own unique way of dying and choose their final place and how to spend their last days. They conducted interviews with related organizations and questionnaire surveys of university students nationwide from the three perspectives of "death education," "social capital," and "advance care planning." Based on these results, they considered how the younger generation could deepen their interest in end-of-life issues and become supporters of End-of-Life Planning within the community, proposing an "End-of-Life Planning Support System" and presenting their findings. At the venue, many university students and members of the public stopped by to play the "Moshi Bana Game" together and listen to the explanation.