Continuity of Relations Between Local Living Environments and the Elderly Moved to a Group Living
Continuity of Relations Between Local Living Environments and the Elderly Moved to a Group Living
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当地居住环境与老年人群居关系的延续
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2013
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T. Nishino
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T. Nishino
“就地养老”正在成为老龄化社会的一个关键问题。因此，护养院的选址是设计适合长者设施的重要因素。对老年人来说，维持自己的日常生活环境是很重要的，即使他们不得不搬到集体护理设施或养老院。不过，为需要照顾的长者而设的设施，很多都是传统上建于宁静的郊区。因此，声称这些设施的居民与其环境的关系具有显着的连续性是很困难的。在这一章中，我们研究的连续性的居民所经历的团体护理设施与他们的日常生活环境的物理和人文方面的关系。作为一个案例研究，我们选择了一个老年痴呆症的团体护理设施位于一个城市，其中大部分居民从周边社区在日本。然后，我们对居民外出时的行为和言论进行了现场观察。观察表明，一些居民与日常生活环境的关系具有某种形式的连续性。我们认为，有一个人的生活中心的历史和一个人的日常生活环境的关系的连续性的状态之间的相关性后，搬进一组护理设施。然后我们讨论这种连续性的条件和意义。我们的研究表明，为了保持与以前的日常生活环境的关系，搬进一个设施的重要性。
“Ageing in place” is becoming a key issue in the ageing society. As such, the location of nursing homes is an important factor in designing suitable facilities for the elderly. It is important for the elderly to maintain their own daily living environments, even if they have to move to group care facilities or nursing homes. However, many facilities for the care-requiring elderly were traditionally built in serene countryside locations. Therefore, to claim that there was significant continuity in the relationships of those facilities’ residents to their environments would have been difficult. In this chapter, we examine the continuity of relationships experienced by residents in a group care facility with the physical and human aspects of their daily living environments. As a case study, we selected a group care facility for the elderly with dementia located in a city in which a majority of residents moved in from surrounding communities in Japan. Then, we conducted on-site observations of the behaviors and remarks of residents when they went out. Observations indicated that some form of continuity of relationships with daily living environments was experienced by some residents. We suggest that there is a correlation between one’s living-hub history and the status of the continuity of one’s relationship with the daily living environment after moving into a group care facility. We then discuss the conditions and significance of this continuity. Our study shows the significance of moving into a facility close to one’s former daily living environment in order to maintain a relationship with it.