2016 Volume 2016 Issue 26 Pages 470-478
Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world. However, it becomes nowadays the biggest challenge, extending the healthy life expectation, how long human can spend their life wholesomely, not simply extending the life expectancy. Since the late elderly turn to the care state gradually, passing thorough the flail, that causes the health problem, prevention of flail makes a great contribution to extending the healthy life expectancy. Malnutrition, as well as sarcopenia, is a crucial factor of flail. Furthermore, we must keep in mind to prevent not only malnutrition but also sarcopenia, because the relation of nutrition to flail has been proved.
In other words, for the purpose of extending the healthy life expectancy, we need to face with the late elderly stage with the correct knowledge and the appropriate awareness while in good health, not taking measures after becoming into the care state.
But it is difficult to be recognized that the indispensable for prevention of malnutrition, because less opportunity to be aware of malnutrition at daily life. For that reason, to be recognized that the indispensable for prevention of malnutrition for elderly, I think that it is effective working on values for health and health outlook of the elderly.
In this study, for the purpose of considering approaching methods in health educating for the elderly and measures of promoting behavior change, I researched the elderlies’ health outlook and their knowledges and interests about health and nutrition.
As a result, it was suggested, that independent healthy elderlies who have subjectively good health outlook try to take preventive actions against health disorder and malnutrition in meals, nutrition and exercise in order to keep theirselves in good health.
