Two out of three Japanese with dementia live at home, conditions conducive to isolation. They have the attitude of “rather than receiving assistance, I want to work, to be useful to the community,” and the pop-up restaurant gives them a cheery place to do just that.The restaurant has been carefully designed to avoid mistakes. Behind its success lies the extraordinary painstaking efforts of the management and others. “We wanted to make this a welcoming place where everybody feels comfortable.”14FEATURE A Society with Health and Longevityt’s called the “Restaurant of Mistaken Orders”—a restaurant where orders and deliveries sometimes go astray. Yes, we’ve come to a place where the waiters and waitresses all have some degree of cognitive impairment. The impetus for starting this In Japan, known as a super-aging society, dementia is predicted to affect one in five people by 2025.[1] In such circumstances, an innovative social experiment has caught the attention of Japan and the world. pop-up restaurant comes from an encounter between the creator Shiro Oguni and a group home where people with dementia live. “Like everybody else, my awareness of dementia at first tended towards negative images of people who were ‘radically forgetful’ and ‘aimlessly wandering about.’ But actually, they can cook, clean, do laundry, go shopping and do other ‘normal’ things for themselves. Close-up, they might go a little off course now and then, but….” Lunchtime. The order was for a Hamburger steak, but Oguni was served a plate of gyoza (potstickers) instead. “As everybody around me was eating with such gusto, and I felt quite muddled and wondered if perhaps it was me who was in Restaurant of Mistaken Orders Brings SmilesI
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