[Muscular Dystrophy: A Banana? At This Time of the Night?].

In Japan, specialized wards for muscular dystrophy have been established in national hospitals since 1964, and opportunities for medical care, rehabilitation training, and education have been provided. Since the 90s, advances in ventilatory therapy and heart failure pharmacotherapy have resulted in increased life expectancy in patients with muscular dystrophy. The social infrastructure has also improved, but it still took long to develop support systems for the social lives of individuals with disabilities. A Banana? At This Time of the Night? is a non-fiction book about a muscular dystrophy patient who led an independent life and of the volunteers who supported him, which was adapted into a film.