Consideration of factors related to daily conversation (life-worldly communication) as care for older adults requiring care

Focusing on base attributes and social relationship factors

Abstract

  This study aims to examine the factors related to daily conversations among older adults requiring care, considering personal attributes and social relationship factors. A questionnaire survey was conducted with a random sample of 539 individuals from both residential care facilities and home-based care recipients. Path analysis was performed using dummy variables to understand the overall picture of factors related to the life world communication scale (LWCS). Multiple imputation was used to address missing values in the scales employed. The results indicated significant paths to LWCS from conversations with family members (SC=.17~.13) and women (SC=.23~.13) in both facility and home settings, conversations with friends in the facility setting (SC=.20), and utilization of day services and home visit nursing in the home settings (SC=.18~.26). The LWCS showed significant paths to the interdependent happiness scale (SC=.35~.36) in both facility and home settings and to center for epidemiological studies depression scale (SC=-.14) in the facility setting. The daily conversations affected the quality of life in older adults requiring care and the level of depression among those requiring residential care.