Abstract
[Purpose] The purpose of this survey was to investigate how care workers assist institutionalised disabled elderly in care health centers for the elderly from the viewpoint of learning theory. [Subjects] Participants in this study were 29 care workers and 3 institutionalised elderly who are cared by them. [Methods] We recorded and classified, what kind of assistance carers used, whether they were able to wait or not, and what kind of responses they made to each of the elderly's behavior, and then we calculated the total number of them. [Results] The results revealed that 87% "totally assisted", 4% of the time carers were "not able to wait", 82% of the time carers gave "no response", 3% of the time carers gave "praise" for elderly's behavior, and 15% of the time assistance was given in the middle of elderly's behavior. [Conclusion] The results of this survey suggest that carers' assistance increased the elderly's dependent behavior and decreased independent behavior from the viewpoint of learning theory.
