Abstract
A study was conducted to examine the ideal type of nursing support service for caregivers of the elderly, focusing specifically on the role of gender. The study was conducted using a questionnaire that was distributed to nursing course participants, and effective answers were obtained from 371 people. The service that respondents felt least likely to use was "special nursing home for the elderly", followed in order by "short stay" and "home help service". The gender role standard score of the person who thinks, "The family should nurse", "The woman should nurse", "Eldest son's bride should nurse", "It wants the child to nurse", "When service is used, take care with", "When service is used, eyes of the criticism of surroundings are anxious", "When service is used, the sense of sin is felt" and "The nurser cannot be helped to be sacrificed" is intentionally low. The concept of nursing within the family without using support services has intentionally increased to one with a low gender role standard score. It was clear that the sense of resistance to service use had been influenced by gender role considerations. When considering the situation of caregivers of the elderly, the importance of sanitary education for improving individual attitudes is suggested.
