Abstract
To understand the physical,psychological and social characteristics of elderly patients with enterostoma,we performed a self-administered questionnaire survey by mail. The respondents consisted of 68 patients representing 62％ of the proposed participants. We divided the respondents into three groups according to their age. The older patients tended to feel constrained when they ate dinner with others,used the same bedroom as a spouse,used the same bathroom as their family,and hesitated to do exercise. Most of them had not changed their technique for stomal care since their discharge.
The results of our survey suggested to us that we should recommend that the older patients periodically visit our outpatient office to receive new information about stomal care.
