2009 Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 131-143
Introduction: The number of users of home visiting and medical care has been increasing since 2000 when the long-term care insurance system was launched.
The recent high medical technology enables the family care-giver to take care of the people receiving medical care at home. However home care often causes serious and complicated problems, and lots of responsibility to the family care-giver, therefore large number of the people receiving medical care are ultimately moved to the facility such as hospital and care center from the home, which may depend on the family sense of values.
Aim: The purpose of this research is to classify the process that the family care-giver recognize his/her own sense of values supporting the people receiving medical care at home.
Methods: The research was conducted by qualitative inductive analysis. The eight families caregivers were interviewed at home.
Conclusion: The following three categories are the recognition of the sense of values of the family care-giver supporting the people receiving medical care at home and its process; 1. [the people as irreplaceable existence] 2. [being supported by surrounding power to do home care] 3. [living a day being called today in valuable].
