Considered the perspectives of public effort on the recognition of self-care under the community-based care system

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K12593
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (2020); International University of Health and Welfare (2017-2019)
• Principal Investigator: Torimoto Yasuko 浜松医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (90566241)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 野呂 千鶴子 国際医療福祉大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (20453079) ; 高野 龍昭 東洋大学, ライフデザイン学部, 准教授 (80408971) ; 保母 恵 国際医療福祉大学, 小田原保健医療学部, 講師 (20757603) ; 柴崎 美紀 (小田切美紀) 杏林大学, 保健学部, 准教授 (20514839)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 中高年者 / 地域包括ケアシステム / 自助

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The middle-aged might not recognized their life and period of caregiving in their elderly years. There was no significance about the average of life expectancy and the period of caregiving they expected among men and women. In fact, women might live a life longer than men and the period of needed caregiving among women might be longer than among men. Some attention should be paid to the consideration about the plan later in life. Women might tend to consider their self-care deeply later in their life. Women might feel anxiety about their future more than men. Women might consider their old age more carefully, compared to men. While there were few possibilities in public insurance systems among both men and women, they might not prepare for the future by themselves.

Free Research Field

地域看護学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現状の地域包括ケアシステムにおける「自助」の課題を明確化することで、現在の高齢者への支援と比較して、今後一層自助が求められることが避けられない現役世代に対して、高齢期の生活に関する理解と備えの必要性についての働きかけの課題の基礎的検討ができるものと考える。