The Study on Issues of the Living Environment to Support Continued Residence of the Elderly in Hilly Area

Through the Investigation in Hilly Area, Iya Region, Tokushima Prefecture

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify of king environment for the elderly in hilly area This is based on the results of the actual condtions of residential environment and the factincing on the elderly. The results of the analysis are as followa
1. Almost all the family of the elderly has cispersed extensively. Sixty percent of they are long cistance dspersion.
2. The main type of network residence is “mubud supporting relationship to relative end neighbor”.
3. The elderly who ive under dfficult residential environment need various public services to support continued residence in valley area.
4. It is of geat importance that the elderly awake to improvement of residential environment before everything else.