Abstract
We conducted a survey to clarify the factors that long-term care-support specialists (i.e. care managers) and home-visit rehabilitation professionals (physical, occupational, and speech language-hearing therapists) consider important in reducing home-visit rehabilitation service. The exploratory factor analysis derived five factors:“Caring ability and interaction with others”, “Independence in ADL”, “Individual QOL”, “Independent mobility, maintaining and improving physical function”, and “Implementation of IADL”. Furthermore, comparison of the factors revealed that care managers tend to focus on the “Independence in ADL” factor and home-visit rehabilitation professionals tend to focus on the “Individual QOL” factor. As a result, care managers and home visit rehabilitation professionals may have different opinions when reducing the frequency of home-visit rehabilitation services.
