At the 12-seat Cafe of Mistaken Orders in Tokyo

What a very nice idea!

Let it be! (Beatles song) "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be"

Apparently, there are also restaurants of mistaken orders in Japan (try Google search). The government of Japan wrote here an article about it in Winter of 2019 titled "Restaurant of Mistaken Orders Brings Smiles".

Hopefully, we will soon find better treatments for dementia!

"When you order a slice of chiffon cake at the Orange Day Sengawa in Tokyo, your server might bring a citrus jelly dessert instead.

But that’s par for the course at the restaurant, also known as the Cafe of Mistaken Orders.

The restaurant is one of Japan’s new “dementia cafes,” which hire older people with dementia to work as servers once a month. 

The goal: Provide servers with a safe, stimulating environment—with the hope that new interactions will help slow the disease’s progression. 

A need for creative care: About 30% of Japan’s population is older than 65, and ~7.5 million people will have dementia by 2025, the country’s Health Ministry estimates. 

A caregiver shortage means the country needs more ways to keep dementia patients active for as long as possible." (Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW)

"... This 12-seat cafe in Sengawa, a suburb in western Tokyo, hires elderly people with dementia to work as servers once a month. A former owner of the cafe has a parent with dementia, and the new owner agreed to let them rent out the space each month as a dementia cafe. The organizers now work with the local government to get connected to dementia patients in the area. ..."

"... It’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. ..."

In aging Japan, dementia patients staff cafe of mistaken orders