2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Reconsideration of the downsizing care with private room by end-of-life care and quality of death

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22760468
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Town planning/Architectural planning
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	KOH Syohken 京都大学, 大学院・医学研究科, 特定助教 (80514231)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	看取り / QOD / QOL / 個室ユニット / 職員参加型ワークショップ
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to reconsider the downsizing care with private room by end-of-life care and quality of death. We selected the long-term care ward with private room for a case study and carried out the workshop for staffs. The results of this study were as follows. It was important to maintain good relations and share realizable hope between elderly, their family, and staffs in the end-of-life care period. It became clear that medical-treatment environment is important in order to realize various requests in the end-of-life care period.

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