It is difficult for persons with cervical cord injury (CCI) to live at home, because the increase in the number of nuclear families and families consisting only of old persons have led to a shortage of care given in a family. We followed up 42 persons with CCI injuries from January, 1987 to December, 1996, and evaluated their activities of daily living by the Modified Barthel Index (B. I.) score. There were 26 persons with less than 80 points on the B. I. 16 (61.5%) lived at home and the others were in hospitals or facilities for the disabled. To maintain a proper life at home, they need to remodel their house, at least a care giver in their families, and social resources which support home care.
