Ethnomethodological study of care work for communication disorder with aging

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730480
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: AKIYA Naonori 京都大学, 物質-細胞統合システム拠点, 研究員 (10589998)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: エスノメソドロジー / 会話分析 / 高齢者介護 / ケア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project conducted care work for communication disorder with aging. Especially, I aimed at investigation of interactional structures in care settings. I videotaped care work in nursing home, and analyzed video data from perspective of ethnomethodology. And, I researched training settings of orientation and mobility for visually impaired person, and compared result of the analysis of OM training settings with result of analysis of care settings.
I focused on care worker's reasoning action that is guessing of elderly person's competence of organizing ordinary activity. As a result, when care worker organize reasoning action, their practices are oriented intelligibility of recovering or keeping elderly person's organizing ordinary action, based on this, their care work organized as help for elderly person.

Free Research Field

社会学