2005 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 61-70
To clarify the role of chief helper in multi disciplinary teams, we analyzed the recognition of information on the elderly through a comparison among chief helpers, Visiting nurses and care managers. We asked for chief helpers, visiting nurses, and staff in home care support centers. 400 places for each were extracted at random, by cross-sectional survey with mailed questionnaire. The response rate was 56.8%. The results showed that chief helpers better recognized the individual’s living activity and daily life than others, but less recognized information about ADL, medical care and terminal care than nurses. Moreover, chief helpers recognized social resources around elderly to the same level as care managers. This result holds some suggestions for cooperation in multidisciplinary teams, 1） Chief helpers have to be supported by nurses in information about ADL in relation to maintenance and expansion of bodily functions, and to care safely for the elderly with medical needs as the occasion demands, 2） Chief helpers can inform others of the individual’s life in order to secure subjectivity. 3） Chief helpers can support the area of monitoring in care management system.
