Housing & Environmental Design Laboratory

Aging is becoming a shared global reality, and one of its hardest challenges is not only medical. It is social. Many older adults live with shrinking circles of contact after retirement, bereavement, migration of younger family members, or reduced mobility. Over time, isolation can affect mood, confidence, daily routines, and cognitive health. Improving quality of life, or QOL, for older adults calls for more than care services alone. It also calls for places where elders fee

Thailand’s first reminiscence therapy center has been established in Ton Haen Noi Village, Chiang Mai. The center was created as a space for practicing “Kaisoho” (reminiscence therapy), a method that encourages elderly people to recall and share memories through conversation, objects, photographs, and everyday experiences from the past. At the center, Faai-san and Setsuko-san, who learned the reminiscence therapy method in Nagoya, Japan, kindly organized and facilitated activ

On March 8, a reminiscence workshop (WS) was conducted in Tainan, Taiwan. The workshop was organized mainly by the Taiwan research team and held in the Jibei community, a settlement known for being home to the Siraya people (Siraya / 西拉雅族), one of the Indigenous groups of Taiwan. The Siraya are classified as a subgroup of the Pingpu peoples and are mainly distributed in the Tainan region. The workshop began with a field walk through the community guided by Professor Alak Akad

3rd Reminiscence therapy workshop in THN village, Chiang Mai, Thailand, was successfully carried out. We will open the Kaiso Ho Center, or Reminiscence Therapy Center here in the village soon.