Development of a life program generation system to improve the QOL for person requiring care.

Abstract

At nursing care sites, life programs are implemented for improving the QOL of facility users. It is important to carefully examine the QOL items for each user, create and implement the effective life program based on this. However, facilities are busy on a daily basis, and it is not possible to devote sufficient time to developing a life program that considers the role of user. Therefore, in this study, we first selected the QOL items from the areas of "activity" and "participation" of ICF and scrutinizing based on a questionnaire survey of 355 facilities. Then, we developed a computer system that automatically generates a life program using determined QOL and creates a database of the results. This system can be used from the browser that is usually used to improve the convenience at each facility. In this paper, we discuss the details of the developed system and its use.