A study on sharing the elderly residents' data among supportive community actors via Geographical Information System.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380829
• 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: Ryukoku University Faculty of Junior College
• Principal Investigator: Kato Hiroshi 龍谷大学短期大学部, 短期大学部, 教授 (50185865)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 民生委員 / 地理情報システム / 多文化共生 / 外国人高齢者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Kyoto City survey data of single residents over 65 years of age has been permitted by the Kyoto City Personal Information Protection Committee for our project to transfer the data from Excel format to Geographical Information System (GIS) data. With this data-transfer we can make the structure of problems of each regional community more visible and are able to share the useful data more easily among community actors (welfare institution staff and volunteers) via the digital map. By using the GIS, Community General Support Centers’ jobs can be streamlined as well as their policy making jobs. However various problems should be solved during the execution of our project, namely the development of human resources, infrastructure, and the way of data-management. The most critical one is about the protection of personal information.

Free Research Field

社会科学