A creative care approach to the elderly with cognitive impairment in a Group Home in Japan

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22659106
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUYAMA Naoto 東海大学, 医学部, 准教授 (50349338)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MORI Hidezo 東海大学, 医学部, 教授 (90146598)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 生活能力拡大志向型介護法 / 認知症 / グループホーム

Research Abstract

A Group Home is expected as community-based services. However, the desirable care approach was not determined yet. In this study we performed prospective study in order to show the creative care approach was effective in the Group Home tenant. The creative care approach reduced mortality and maintained ADL

Research Products

• [Presentation] グループホームにおける生活能力拡大志向型介護法の介入効果に関する前向き研究 (2012)
  • Author(s): 福山 直人, 田中千陽, 盛 英三
  • Organizer: 第54回日本老年医学会学術集会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京国際フォーラム(東京都)
  • Year and Date: 2012-06-28
• [Presentation] 在宅診療における医療に関する研究 (2011)
  • Author(s): 福山直人, 田中千陽, 盛 英三
  • Organizer: 第53回日本老年医学会学術集会
  • Place of Presentation: ハイアットリージェンシー東京(東京都)
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-16
• [Presentation] Visualization of Perforating Branches of Cerebral Arteries Toward Clinical Evaluation of Vascular Disease and Alzheimer's-overlap Syndrome (2011)
  • Author(s): Hidezo Mori, Naoto Fukuyama, Yoshimori Ikeya, Toshiharu Fujii, Chiharu Tanaka, Yuko Tsukamoto, Shunya Takizawa, Keiji Umetani.Hidezo Mori, et al
  • Organizer: 26th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International
  • Place of Presentation: Toronto, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-28
• [Presentation] A Conventional care approach to the elderly with cognitive impairment in a Group Home in Japan (2011)
  • Author(s): Naoto Fukuyama, Yoshimori Ikeya, Toshiharu Fujii, Teruhisa Tanabe, Kozo Hanayama, Koji Kimura, Tomoko Terakado, Nobuyuki Yoshinaka, Tomomi Takagi, Satsuki Sasai, Kazumi Takara, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kamon, Hidezo Mori
  • Organizer: 26th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International
  • Place of Presentation: Toronto,Canada
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-27