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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Relationships of physical fitness, exercise ability, and muscle mass of frail elderly people with factors in their living

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16500450
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Applied health science
Research InstitutionKyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Principal Investigator

KIMURA Misaka  Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (90150573)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OKAYAMA Yasuko  Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (50150850)
FUCHIMOTO Takafumi  Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, Professor, 体育学部, 教授 (90133537)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
KeywordsFrail elderly people / fitness and exercise ability / bioelectrical impedance analysis / muscle mass / factors in daily living
Research Abstract

In June, 2005, an amendment to the Home Care Insurance Law passed the national Diet for the establishment of a sustainable care insurance system for home-cared elderly-people. One of the points in this amendment was the creation of a new preventive benefit for the prevention of decline in physical functions of mildly disabled people. For the prolongation of the healthy lifespan and control of the medical cost and care insurance premium, it is the most desirable that healthy people remain healthy forever. However, intervention for disability prevention, i.e., intervention in frail elderly people, particularly those to whom an insurance benefit is not applied and those at a low disability grade, is urgently needed. In the intervention for disability prevention in such elderly people, the most important consideration is to minimize the decline in physical fitness and exercise ability necessary for the daily living. In Japan, however, there have not been many studies on physical fitness an … More d exercise ability or its maintenance and recovery in frail elderly people. In these circumstances, we designed a 2-year study to clarify the relationships of the state of physical fitness and exercise ability of frail elderly people with factors in their living and to prepare an exercise program for the intervention for disability prevention that can be incorporated in their daily living.
In the first year, we measured the physique, fitness (muscle strength, flexibility, balance, walking ability, etc.), and muscle mass in facility day-service users (70 people mostly at the need-of-support level or grade 1 need-of-care but some at grade 3 or 4 need-of-care) and clarified characteristics of these parameters in elderly people in need of care. This year, on the basis of the results obtained in the first year, we evaluated what support is necessary for the day-service staff to become able to provide an exercise session as part of the day-service program. We, then, helped the staff apply an exercise program to day-service users and measured changes in their fitness and pattern of daily living after 6 months. The results obtained this year suggest that the fitness level and muscle mass were maintained, that exacerbation of the need-of-care grade was small, that many day-service users looked forward to exercise sessions, and that they also wanted to exercise at home but actually did not. Less

  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2005 Other

All Journal Article (13 results)

  • [Journal Article] 中高年を対象とした健康づくり事業後の活動量と栄養摂取状況(箕面市ヘルスアップセミナー参加者における調査結果)2005

    • Author(s)
      木村みさか他2名
    • Journal Title

      京都府立医科大学看護学科紀要 14

      Pages: 1-6

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 健常者における姿勢変換に伴う血圧・心拍応答と主観的指標との関連(起立性低血圧の発現に注目して)2005

    • Author(s)
      笹川寿美, 木村みさか他4名
    • Journal Title

      京都府立医科大学看護学科紀要 14

      Pages: 29-36

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 虚弱高齢者の体力を測る(デイサービスでの試み)2005

    • Author(s)
      木村みさか他4名
    • Journal Title

      保健の科学 47

      Pages: 401-407

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ポートアイランド高層住宅に居住する高齢者の身体活動量と栄養摂取の季節変動2005

    • Author(s)
      木村みさか他3名
    • Journal Title

      ウオーキング学研究 9

      Pages: 131-137

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 歩こう会に所属する中・高齢者の身体活動量と栄養摂取状況(秋期と冬期の調査結果)2005

    • Author(s)
      糸井亜弥, 木村みさか
    • Journal Title

      ウオーキング学研究 9

      Pages: 139-144

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] State of falling and physical fitness in independent elderly people participating in a health promotion program.2005

    • Author(s)
      Y.Okayama, M.Kimura他11名
    • Journal Title

      Proceeding of 3rd Asian Regional Conference in Safe Communities

      Pages: III49-III50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Activity level and nutritional intakes of middle-aged and aged people after participation in a health-promotion program ; Results of survey of participants in Minoh City Health-Up Seminar.2005

    • Author(s)
      Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Bul.School of Nursing.Kyoto Pref.Univ.Med. 14

      Pages: 1-6

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Relationship between blood pressure, hear rate and subjective complaints associated with postural changes in healthy people : Attending to occurrences of orthostatic hypotension.2005

    • Author(s)
      Hisami Sasagawa, Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Bul.School of Nursing.Kyoto Pref.Univ.Med. 14

      Pages: 29-36

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Physical fitness in the frail elderly people.2005

    • Author(s)
      Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Health Physical Education and Recreation 47

      Pages: 401-407

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Seasonal changes in the physical activity level and nutritional intake in elderly people living in tall housing complexes in Port Island.2005

    • Author(s)
      Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Walking Research 9

      Pages: 131-137

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Seasonal variation of the physical activity level and nutritional intake in the elderly residents of high-rise condominiums in Port Island, Kobe)2005

    • Author(s)
      Aya Itoi, Misaka Kimura.
    • Journal Title

      Walking Research 9

      Pages: 139-144

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] State of falling and physical fitness in independent elderly people participating in a health promotion program.2005

    • Author(s)
      Yasuko Okayama, Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Proceeding of 3rd Asian Regional Conference in Safe Communities III

      Pages: 49-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Elderly Health and Fitness Promotion Program being Performed in the Minimum Administrative Units of a Town-Fitness Measurements Continued for 4 Years-

    • Author(s)
      Yasuhito Tanaka, Misaka Kimura et al.
    • Journal Title

      Proceeding of the 8th Asian Federation of Sports Medicine Congress (in print)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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