Visit to Japan
![Radha & Pam visiting a temple to see Autumn leaves Radha & Pam visiting a temple to see Autumn leaves](https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/nursing-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/170/2017/12/RadhaPam.jpg)
Identifying best practice and developing guidelines for migrant care workers to provide culturally sensitive person-centred care for older people and people with dementia in Japan
Dr Radha Adhikari and Professor Pam Smith have just spent 12 days in Japan collecting data for this project funded by the Butterfield Awards for UK-Japan collaboration in medical research and public health practice. Radha is the PI and the project builds on her research collaboration since 2014 with Professor Ruth Carlos, Professor of Economics, Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoko University, Kyoto on the global workforce and migrant care workers in Japan.
![Radha interviewing a Filipina care worker](http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/nursing-tales/files/2017/12/Radha-300x225.jpg)
Radha interviewing a Filipina care worker
![Group discussion at the Nara Higashi Hospital Group](http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/nursing-tales/files/2017/12/NaraHigashi-300x225.jpg)
Group discussion at the Nara Higashi Hospital Group
![Group photo at the Maimu Nursing Home, Maizuru, Kyoto](http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/nursing-tales/files/2017/12/GroupPhoto-300x225.jpg)
Group photo at the Maimu Nursing Home, Maizuru, Kyoto
![Radha & Pam visiting a temple to see Autumn leaves](http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/nursing-tales/files/2017/12/RadhaPam-225x300.jpg)
Radha & Pam visiting a temple to see Autumn leaves
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Mount Fuji from the Shikansen ‘bullet train’