Health guidance improvement for rhythms of daily living and form social netwaor to prevent pneumonia in elderly people

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26671001
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Gerontological nursing
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	OKAMOTO Noriko 筑波大学, 医学医療系, 助教 (40624664)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	松田ひとみ筑波大学, 医学医療系, 教授 (80173847) 檜澤伸之筑波大学, 医学医療系, 教授 (00301896)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	高齢者 / 肺炎予防 / 生活リズム / 肺炎
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The purpose of this study was to develop the health guidance to improve rhythms of daily　living and form social networks to prevent pneumonia in elderly people. Participants were community-dwelling elderly people. And we used questionnaires and a measuring device for sleep as our research method to gather data. Participants who easily suffer from upper respiratory infection had the following characteristics; suffered from other current diseases, tended to be depressed, had low oral health, had low social networks and caught a cold in the previous year. Participants who had pneumonia were also frequently awake in the middle of the night.