This study focuses on visual stimulation, especially on color. We report an experimental result about preference of abstract color and image of color, which was conducted to the child with developmental disorders who has a significance vision in color. The study has the following two points. 1) The color used for the experiment was set from Mansel and color scheme classification which is used for architecture or interior work plan.2)An analytical method by the entropy to consider individual difference was used. As a result, we confirmed the facts below.1)Pink has a tendency to be preferred among the children in common. 2)There are some colors which give the children a negative image than other colors in color scheme classification. 3)It shows the distinction in the tendency of the preference and the image for pale purple. 4)The intimacy between the emotional image "happy, sad" and the exciting, the calming image "comfortable , annoy" for the preference "like , dislike" is high.

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The Validation is not only one of the ways to communicate with the elderly with Dementia but also shows us basic ways to care for such clients through the innovative ways of thinking. By using this method, it would be possible to change the views and skills of care workers. The other day one of the Validation lectures was held and before and after the lecture, we issued a questionnaire. In the questionnaire we asked the participants about their stress to support clients and thought to a staff's work (confidence, motivation, beliefs) and will to work in their expertised area. including nursing care, or medical care. Then 327 people in the field of nursing care or medicine participated in the training program. As a result, it was suggested that these care workers could reduce their stress to support clients and increase their will to work. Through the analysis of the response, we could find positive changes of these matters to some extent.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between physical health-related quality of life, demand for urban development, and usage of pubic transports among dwelling not-homebound elderly. Subjects were 1201 not-homebound elderlies who lived in Arakawa city. Subjects were divided into two groups by the results of PCS score of SF-8 using non-clustered analysis. The results showed that JR East and Tokyo Metro users was significantly relation to high health group, on one hands, the demands of increasing the number of benches was significantly relation to low health group. This study indicated that usage of public transports and demands for urban development were relate to the characteristic of physical health-related quality of life among the not homebound elderly.

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This study use the technology was developed to compare targets' faces to the happy model face with a rate approximation from 1 to 100% as a smile index (SI) ,and focus on the residents' expression and performed behavior tracking survey with the automated face recognition technology for 2 days (11 hours a day). We found that (1) high SI was observed during 'conversation', 'household tasks', 'TV-watching', and 'taking meal' with conversation, and expression on the residents was significantly affected by conversations; (2) higher SI was observed during 'household tasks', 'TV-watching', and 'taking meal' with more frequent conversations; and (3) conversations during 'household tasks' were regularly observed even on the severely demented residents, and they were actually good opportunities of communication among residents without reference to ADL.

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