Investigation Studies on a More Valid Social Support for Family Caregivers Holding Those Elderly

Abstract

A burden of family caregivers of those elderly becomes more and more large and importance of social support for them increase more and more. The purpose of this study was to elucidate essential factors for the well-being of care givers in order to plan a more valid social support for caregivers’ well-being and the stability of care giving situation. We asked for 47 caregivers by visiting door-to-door about their care circumstances, life total consciousness, life satisfaction degree, and investigated it statistically. From a factor analysis result of data, 9 factors were extracted as a rule factor of care circumstances, that is, life satisfaction degree (F1), care amount (F2), autonomy (F3), emotional control (F4), spare time activity (F5), care frequency (F6), circumferential support (F7), give-and-take with other those warmly (F8), practical use of service (F9). Considering with these 9 factors in relation to major well-known general ideas, F1 deals with a quality of life, F2 and 6 deal with a care burden, F3, 4 and 9 deal with the dealing behavior, F5, 7 and 8 influence a factor of competence. We proposed a empowerment model providing care giving situation with the mutual participation, and suggested the importance of emotional support, such as circumferential support or give-and-take with other those warmly as well as various kinds of material service from a view of the empowerment point.