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Kikuko Ota
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
4-7
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Nobuko Yamahata
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
8-14
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Sumiko Maehara
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
15-18
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Satoshi Ide, Nobuyuki Mori
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
19-29
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This study compared metamemory, depression and cognitive function of Japanese geriatric nursing facility residents (n = 117, M = 83.1 ± 6.17 y.o.) and daycare attendees (n = 85, M = 78.9 ± 6.32 y.o.). In face-to-face interviews, participants were administered the Mini Mental State Exam, Geriatric Depression Scale, Health Scale, and the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire. The findings indicated that the memory complaints among Japanese elders vary by living arrangement. The memory complaints are usually incongruous with objective evaluation; however, the findings also indicated that the self-evaluation memory among Japanese elders was consistent in them. The results were suggesting that different approaches for Japanese elders based on their age, the level of depression and the type of living arrangement were important in order to provide appropriate program for maintaining and improving their memory.
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Yuko Okita, Reiko Okamoto, Kimiko Nakayama
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
30-39
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The purpose of this study is to clarify the intervention methods by the nurses and caregivers in finding activity programs to draw out activity from the elderly people with dementia. As for the research method, interviews were carried out towards 18 skilled nurses and caregivers in the field of giving care for the elderly suffering from elderly people with dementia by using quasi open-ended type questionnaire sheet, and the analysis was implemented with revised Grounded Theory. From this study, it was found that there are 2 methods of making intervention by the nurses and caregivers to draw out activity from those elderly people with dementia; one not based on the dates of each of the individual, and the other based on such dates. In addition to this, the models of activity programs could be formulated based on the data of the individual elderly people with dementia. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the decision-making regarding activity programs can be done, not based on the choices of the available programs but on the needs of the elderly people with dementia.
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Kaoru Konishi
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
40-49
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The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristics of cognitive appraisal of stress and coping strategy of disability on stroke victims by activity of daily living and cognitive function which are very important assessment tools for care effectiveness and support planning at before and after the discharge. The subjects were divided 4 types by ADL and cognitive function. Each type had a different characteristic. [Independent-Good Cognitive Function] had the biggest increase of stress after the discharge, even though it had the greatest coping function. [Independent-Poor Cognitive Function] hardly recognized their situation because of poor cognition, easily expected recovery and tended to decrease activities. [Dependent-Good Cognitive Function] had the highest QOL, because they had improvement of ADL and increase activities by caregiver. On the other hand, they had frequent palliative coping and poor confrontive coping. [Dependent-Poor Cognitive Function] had the highest stress and was emotionally instable for long time. Support and care by professionals affected to raise their moral to confront hardship on the other side.
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Kazuko Takahashi, Kikuko Ota
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
50-57
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The purpose of this research was to clarify the needs of community care systems for the elderly in urban and rural areas and to determine the community-based differences. Additionally, the directionality of system-making by the communities was investigated. The subjects were elderly people living in A Ward (urban area) and B Town (rural area) in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The results indicated that the need for "quality and quantity in the systems" received the highest percentage of responses. In A Ward "economic help" was the second highest, but in B Town "I do not want to trouble others" was the second. In A Ward and in B Town, the percentage of the elder-only families that had needs for community care was higher than that of other families. Additionally, those A Ward elderly tended to be younger than the others. When the data from the two regions was compared, the percentage of the elderly people in B Town who were working during the year before the investigation was higher than that of A Ward. The following are suggested from these results. It is necessary to strengthen the resident's cooperative relationships in urban areas so that the elderly can participate in social activities. The rural area fulfills this requirement, but it is necessary to enhance the social welfare system in farming-village communities so the senior citizens can use it without psychological uneasiness.
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Naomi Ohyama, Mizue Suzuki, Kiyomi Yamada
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
58-66
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This study was conducted in order to clarify the relation between subjective burdens and Health Related QOL(HRQOL) on the family members who were care-giving the frail elderly. The survey was conducted by questionnaires that were mailed to 268 caregivers. Valid responses were obtained from 169 of them(63 %). The survey questions were consisted of sex, age and ADL of the frail elderly, and age, sex, employment, economy burden with the frail elderly of caregivers, and the duration of care-giving, involvement of the secondary caregiver, and frequency to use social services and to have consultation at Home Caregiver Support Center. The scales developed by Nakatani et al. were used to measure subjective burdens and SF-36 to evaluate HRQOL. The results are as follows: 1. The significant correlations were observed between subjective burdens and HRQOL, including "physical functioning", "role limitations due to physical problems", "body pain", "mental health", "role limitations due to emotional problems". 2. In the caregivers of pain low group, the high group of subjective burdens was greater. 3. There were few relationships between subjective burdens and society function. 4. Further, the relationship between subjective burdens and other factors was investigated using multiple logistic regression analysis. There were significant correlations with age of caregiver, family relationship, economy burden, and secondary caregiver, to have consultation, physical functioning, mental health and pain.
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Megumi Anai, Midori Matsuoka, Masumi Nishida
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
67-74
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Miyuki Ishibashi, Miwako Noguchi
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
75-84
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Sachiko Ono
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
85-91
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Minori Tokui, Nobuko Mizutani
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
92-98
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Chiyo Matsuoka, Kinue Yokogawa, Yumiko Ichihara
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
99-106
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Keiko Matsumoto, Reiko Seita, Toshiko Ikeda, Setsuko Akagi, Yoneko Hai ...
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
107-113
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Ryoko Rokkaku
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
114-122
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Mika Nomura, Hiroko Komatsu, Emiko Ito, Kyoko Okamitsu, Masako Minamik ...
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
123-128
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Shuhei Migita, Yukari Hattori
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
129-137
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Midori Watanabe
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
138-147
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Hiroe Hitomi, Shizuko Tanigaki, Tetsuaki Inamitsu, Youko Nakamura, Tak ...
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
148-155
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Katsuko Kanagawa, Shigeyo Okuno, Kyoko Numoto, Kinuko Takasaki, Kikuko ...
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2001 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
156-166
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