Abstract
This paper aims to examine history and rooms of respite care facilities for the elderly. The findings are as follows. (1) There are two cases that respite care have been included in nursing home when the establishment, independent respite care facilities since the establishment, and both cases to be established after 1990. (2) It have some merits in respite care facilities, but works of the staffs become complicated because of users' frequent replacement. (3) In the latest respite care facilities, single rooms and double rooms are on the increase. And in facilities of having less fixed number, it is high rate that each user can use single room. (4) In respite care facilities, it can allocate room easily for each use's needs because of having many single rooms.
