Sociological Research of Various Types of Employment in Special Nursing Home for the Elderly

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380761
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Tohoku Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SUGAWARA Sanae 東北学院大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (50359501)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 特別養護老人ホーム / 就業形態 / 多様性 / 職員配置 / 外国人介護福祉士

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to contribute to qualitative analysis of personnel distribution at special nursing home for the elderly. We observed that a distribution of part-time workers consisting of married women or the internees from the foreign countries such as the candidates for certified care workers under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would be determinants in distributing care worker at several types of special nursing homes for the elderly. In case of our investigation, those married female part-time workers with long term employment play a role of maintaining a quality of care. Also, accepting the foreign internees at nursing home provides the opportunities to review and pass down to new staffs their culture and skills of care to new staffs.

Free Research Field

福祉社会学