2001 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 20-26
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factor of extension to time in bed (TIB) of home care clients and influence of their daily life in recuperation. Of those getting health care services in H prefecture,fifty-one subjects (65-95 years of age, mean age 77.3 ± 7.9) were studied. Each respondent lived in an independent house with their family or spouse.The respondents were rated either A (semi-independent) or B (semi-bedridden). Using a structured questionnaire, the researcher interviewed all clients between September 1997 and October 1998.The findings are as follows:
1) Home care clients’ bedtime was early and getting up time was late, their TIB became extended and twenty-one clients’ TIB was over 9 hours.
2) Low degree of self-care level and household of couple were factors of sleeping for a long time, and it brought the state of bedridden.
3) The clients with low self-care level excreted in the bedroom at nighttime, and took a bath with day service has increased.
4) The place of the excretion and cleanness changed by self-care level, and the satisfaction to the living environment had lowered.
The results suggest the need that the care-givers should advise the family as well as the client at an early stage of their home care life, not to sleep for a long time, to improve the living environment, to expand the range of their action to increase the amount of the activity in daytime and to increase the chance of going out.
