Older adult living independently in a public rowhouse project after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake: A case report

Naomi Ito; Yuri Kinoshita; Tomohiro Morita; Sho Fujioka; Masaharu Tsubokura

doi:10.1002/ccr3.5271

Older adult living independently in a public rowhouse project after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake: A case report

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Jan 11;10(1):e05271. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5271. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Naomi Ito^{1

2}, Yuri Kinoshita^{3

4}, Tomohiro Morita⁵, Sho Fujioka⁵, Masaharu Tsubokura²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health and Welfare Soma City Government Soma Japan.
² Department of Radiation Health Management School of Medicine Fukushima Medical University Fukushima Japan.
³ Division of Food Science and Nutrition Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka Junior College Miyagi Japan.
⁴ Department of Public Health School of Medicine Fukushima Medical University Fukushima Japan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine Soma Central Hospital Soma Japan.

Abstract

We study an older Japanese woman who lived independently with minimal nursing or informal support from others in the rowhouse after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. This case report supports the effectiveness of Idobata nagaya as a measure of the municipality and offers an evidence-based approach to reconstruction after a disaster. Considering the global population aging and isolation trends, the lesson from this case may apply to other settings beyond disasters.

Keywords: Fukushima; aging‐in‐place; dementia; disaster; earthquake; rowhouse.

Publication types

Case Reports