Strategies to enable death at home in Japan: A comparative study between Finnish Lapland and Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26463494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Iwaki Meisei University (2017); Sapporo City University (2014-2016)
• Principal Investigator: SOOUDI KANZAKI KAZUYO いわき明星大学, 看護学部, 教授 (40452990)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 竹生 礼子 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 教授 (80433431) ; 御厩 美登里 札幌市立大学, 看護学部, 助教 (90707564) ; 鹿内 あずさ 北海道文教大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (50382502)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 在宅療養・死 / 在宅看護 / 意思表示 / ICT as tool

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This four-year study on enabling death at home in Finnish Lapland and Hokkaido suggests that despite severe weather and a vast geography, the Lapland region has successfully developed a homehealth system in which people seem to accept dying at home as a given. They also think that nurses hold the key to achieving successful homehealth. By contrast, people in Hokkaido think that physicians have the key to home death’s success. This study indicates that people lack relevant and accurate information on homehealth and dying at home in Hokkaido. This study suggests that this is due to perceptions of homecare and a death of knowledge.
Based on this study, the authors ① constructed a 2-hour program to provide relevant information on dying at home, ② published a text to allow individuals to make their own decisions about where to spend their final days, ③ tested a ICT as a possible suportive tool enabling death at home.

Free Research Field

在宅看護