Factors Associated With Third-Party Disability in Spouses of Elderly with Hearing Loss

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26463459
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: Yamada Kiyomi 名古屋市立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (60269636)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 西田 公昭 立正大学, 心理学部, 教授 (10237703) ; 高橋 眞理子 名古屋市立大学, 大学院医学研究科, 助教 (00336687) ; 蒲谷 嘉代子 名古屋市立大学, 大学院医学研究科, 助教 (50569259)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 高齢者 / 難聴 / 配偶者 / ストレス / コミュ二ケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study was designed to explore how the involvement of elderly people with hearing loss with their spouses affected the spouse’s physical, psychological, and social health and to elucidate factors influencing those effects. Results show that 12 spouses felt burdened by communicating with elderly people who have hearing loss. However, some positively accepted it as a natural aging-related process. Another 151 spouses felt burdened with communication, as found in earlier studies, and with changes in the relationship. When a spouse’s subjective feeling of health was high, the spouse had low psychological stress. When a spouse’s affection score was high, the spouse’s emotional responses to changes in the relationship and adaptation to the changes were low. The spouse’s activities and participation in society were only slightly affected.

Free Research Field

高齢者看護学