Development of home nursing care model in end-of-life for elderly living alone

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463593
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Tokyo Women's Medical University
• Principal Investigator: TOSHIKO Mizuno 東京女子医科大学, 看護学部, 教授 (10153305)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMADA Masako 聖路加国際大学, 看護学部, 教授 (30459242) ; SAKAI Shima 東京女子医科大学, 看護学部, 講師 (40439831) ; HARASAWA Nozomi 東京女子医科大学, 看護学部, 講師 (10623077) ; NARUSAWA Akira 東京女子医科大学, 看護学部, 助教 (80710061) ; WATANABE Kenji 東京女子医科大学, 看護学部, 助教 (50733622)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 独居高齢者 / 訪問看護師 / 終末期看護 / 援助モデル / 在宅死

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A questionnaire was posted at 3734 visiting nurse stations. Elderlies living alone tend to be dying of malignant tumors, severe long-term care level, and not severe dementia. In addition to, family members take care of some elderly people in the last moment, and other people with severe dementia have died alone at home.
After semi-structured interviews and group interviews, the care provided by visiting nurses to allow elderlies living alone a home death was summarized into three core categories. These core categories were “Providing and devising care to allow elderly individuals to continue living as they have been” and “Assessing in palliative care the degree of suffering based on the living situation,” which were the main contents, and “Promoting team care involving specialists and non-specialists to allow everyone to greet their final moments.”

Free Research Field

高齢看護学