Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristic of the old people who hopes for group home. Subjects for the study are 1855 elderly people, aged 65 and over living in the community. Out of the eligible subjects, 1663 (89.6%) participated in the study. The investigation was carried out using detainment method by the district welfare. Within these respondents, 1323 persons who ADL was self supporting were used for the analysis. Results got are as follows. 1) The woman tended to hope for 2.17 times group home further than the man. 2) The frequency which participated in the community work tended to hope for 2.38 times in comparison with the person under it on the person over moon 4 times. These results indicate that group home that the woman is easy to live and that to interchange with the local community is easy is desired.
