1990 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 289-299
In our comparative study on the living, health and social conditions, eating habits, nutrition and results of medical examinations between the elderly who had experience of emigration to Canada (28 persons) at their young or manhood period and the elderly of non-emigration (39persons), we have got some conclusions as follows;
1) In emigrant group, we found more cases of l iving alone and being old couple than in non-emigrant group and 20% of them received pension (200$/month) from Canada.
2) Daily living: The proportion of persons in emigrant group who engag ed in works at farm or seaside, helped to their familie's business and so on, and did every thing they had a mind to do and enjoyed their favourite garden works is comparatively larger than that of those in non-emigrant group.
3) Eating habites: E migrant group has tendency to eat more bread every day and to take more meats, vegitables, fruit and dairy products than non-emigrant group. Emigrant group has inclination not to refrain from eating the foods boiled down in soy.
4) Health conditions: About 60% of emigrant group have their own s ubjective symtoms of being health and number of those who have some diseases (about 14%) are a half to those of non-emigrant group (28%).
5) Results of the health examin ation: The result of the health examination, such as Dementia Rating Scale (Hasegawa), dental examination, ophthalmological examination, ECG test and blood test was that non-abnormal among all aged are only 3. Emigrant group has more gastrointestinal diseases and anemia and non-emigrant group has comparatively more cardiac diseases, skeletal-joint disorder, rheumatism-neuritis and asthma. Average of numbers of diagnosis per a person is 1.4 and there is no difference in diagnosis numbers between emigrant group and non-emigrant group.
6) Result of the nourishment examination: There is no significant difference between emigrant group and non-emigrant group.
