Care prevention for elderly men through fulfilling work that takes advantage of organized communities

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16K20832
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Gerontological nursing
Research Institution	Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing
Principal Investigator	YAMAGUCHI Hatsuyo 沖縄県立看護大学, 看護学部, 助教 (70647007)
Research Collaborator	OHWAN Akemi TABA Yuki SUNAGAWA Yukari
Project Period (FY)	2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	介護予防 / 組織的コミュニティ / 男性高齢者 / 生きがい就労
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study aimed to elucidate the future directions of care prevention activities for elderly men in organized communities in a metropolitan area by analyzing their subjective life challenges and their efforts to engage those challenges, with a focus on fulfilling work. Elderly men had various subjective life challenges, including basic ones associated with no specialized skills. One effort they made was to engage in fulfilling work that was suitable and beneficial to their own life in old age. Therefore, important future directions of care prevention activities are for elderly men to share their subjective life challenges and to address such challenges in cooperation with professionals.