Basic study aimed at elucidating the evidence for effects of skin carefor frail elder foot.

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22592592
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Oita University
• Principal Investigator: KAI Hiromi 大分大学, 医学部, 助教 (80443894)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIENO Eiko 大分大学, 医学部, 教授 (60209723) ; HAMAGUCHI Kazuyuki 大分大学, 医学部, 教授 (60180931) ; SUEHIRO Rie 大分大学, 医学部, 教授 (30336284) ; FUJIKURA Yoshihisa 大分大学, 医学部, 教授 (10165368) ; INA Keisuke 大分大学, 医学部, 准教授 (20203193) ; KITAMURA Hirokazu 大分大学, 医学部, 助教 (70115559) ; FUJIWARA Sakuhei 大分大学, 医学部, 教授 (90181411) ; ARAKAWA Mitsue 大分大学, 医学部, 准教授 (00363549) ; IWAMOTO Kumi 大分大学, 医学部, 助手 (10614167) ; INOUE Kanako 大分大学, 医学部, 助教 (80634360)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 要介護高齢者 / フットケア

Research Abstract

Two procedures were performed for elucidating the evidence for effects of skin care for frail elder foot. The first one was histological research of the skin and internal structure of nail, using donated cadaver . And another one was observational study about physical condition of skin and nail of 16 frail elderly feet. This observation performed in both of summer and winter effecting on the skin situation.The morphological study indicated remarkable differences in epidermis, dermis and sweat gland between dorsal region and plantar region of foot. Dry skin in foot of frail elderly was observed through year in the observational study. It was suggested that the risk of skin maceration and onychomycosis of foot will be increasing during summer season.