Article ID: 2025.0040
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is promoting a “Community Care Conference” as a method to establish the Integrated Community Care System. In Ise-city, the “Ise-city Life Support Conference”, a self-reliance-type Community Care Conference is held, where professionals provide regular advice to individuals who require life support (hereafter referred to as “participants”). In this study, to understand the condition of the participants, we retrospectively investigated and analyzed the assessment results of the participants using the care prevention assessment sheet at the Ise-city Life Support Conference from April 2022 to March 2023. A total of 213 participants were targeted during the survey period, and the analysis revealed the characteristics of those with poor evaluations. First, there was a decrease in independence in daily life due to deteriorated nutritional status and physical functions. Second, there were symptoms similar to those of late-life depression, indicating a mentally unstable condition. These results suggest that a focus on lifestyle, psychological aspects, and the quality of daily activities in the independence of participants’ health can contribute to maintaining and improving their quality of life. In the life support conference, advice from pharmacists, considering nutritional aspects, physical functions, and mental states, could further support the independence of the participants.
