Abstract
The number of dialysis patients who need life supports care are increasing. Recently, medical-welfare organizations have been developing in Japan. These organizations include hospitals, healthcare facilities for the elderly (HCFE), and special nursing homes for the elderly (SNHE), as coordinated institutions.
Some dialysis patients have been admitted to the facilities of such organizations.
We surveyed these organizations by a questionnaire to determine how dialysis patients are accepted. The result shows: 1. The organizations that have dialysis patients at present, accept them without prejudice. 2. Those without dialysis patients at present hesitate to accept dialysis patients.
The reasons are, staff of the organizations are not familiar with dialysis, or they do not welcome patients who seem to need complicated management.
The desire of dialysis patients is for early entry into such facilities for care and nursing.
We have to educate these organizations that the treatment of dialysis patients is not so different from that of other patients.
