A Basic Study on the Life Consciousness of the Healthy Older People

—Toward the Creation of Services Aiming at Improving the QOL

Abstract

In this paper, as a starting point for the creation of services aiming at improving the quality of life (QOL) based on aging society, we clarified the characteristics of the consciousness of everyday life of the healthy older people.
We conducted a web questionnaire survey which consists 9 questions such as fun, anxiety, Ikigai in daily life for 603 men living alone, 1074 men, 330 women living alone and 1108 women who are aged between 60 and 74 and live in Tokyo and 7 prefectures in Kyushu as a target. As a result, it is necessary to focus on men living alone in fun and ikigai, and a women living alone in anxiety from the viewpoint of life consciousness issues. In addition, from the viewpoint of improvement of life consciousness, focusing differences in household structure among men while using differences in gender as the basis, it is able to consider new services based on the factors and clusters extracted from the three types of life consciousness.