The contents of a crisis on the life and risk management among older people living alone

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K11862
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
• Principal Investigator: KUDO Yoshiko 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 准教授 (00214974)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO Miyuki 佐久大学, 看護学部, 教授 (80550318) ; WAKAYAMA Yoshimi 天使大学, 看護栄養学部, 講師 (50713624) ; AOYANAGI Michiko 北海道大学, 大学院・保健科学研究院, 講師 (30405675) ; SUZUKI Hideki 北海道医療大学, リハビリテーション科学部, 教授 (40628963) ; ASANO Yoko 北海道医療大学, リハビリテーション科学部, 講師 (60632479) ; ASAHI Madoka 北海道医療大学, リハビリテーション科学部, 講師 (60466448) ; TANAKA Yuko 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 助教 (00788565)
• Research Collaborator: HONNO Junko 室蘭市保健福祉部 ; OMOTEYAMA Chisato 室蘭市保健福祉部 ; ARA Atsuko 当別町福祉部 ; OOTA Machiko 北海道勤労者在宅医療福祉協会
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 独居高齢者 / 危機管理 / リスクマネジメント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to clear the contents of a crisis on the life and the risk management of senior citizens living alone. A mail survey in 2 autonomous bodies in 2016 was put into effect and collected 4,292 cases were analyzed.
The items many senior citizens feel a crisis were "accident" "fall at outdoor and accident" "decline of a mind and body" "the living obstacle by which it's for no water and a blackout" "being dementia". There were a lot of items which feel that senior citizens living alone was worried compared with person of the other household forms. More than 70 % of person was putting health care, crime prevention and fire prevention into effect for handle to a crisis. Senior citizens living alone were putting the risk management for which a human network was utilized into effect, but they had problems of shortage of physical environment setting for disaster or fires.

Free Research Field

地域看護