Study on Clothing Life Style of Tenants in Special Nursing Home for the Aged-from the Viewpoint of "Space for Life"-

为了调查特殊养老院（NH）的房客的服装生活方式，我们于1999年对日本所有机构进行了问卷调查。645家机构（占所有机构的21.7%）对此做出了答复。在2000年，我们调查了一个日间服务中心（SC）的用户为类似的目的。研究结果如下：（1）NH租户的服装受到护理人员的便利性和服装的维护（主要是易洗性）的控制。SC用户的服装不以同样的方式控制。2）NH租户的发型主要是男性的短发，女性的短发。3）几乎所有的NH经理都建议新租户穿“宽松”的衣服。其中大约一半人，穿“前开口”一个特别为残疾人。约1/3，以避免“需要熨平”和“需要洗衣服务”。由于这些原因，租户的前景往往显示破旧。4）几乎所有的机构都有，并正在使用通常的大洗衣机和大烘干机。提供熨烫服务的机构仅占1/4; 5）接受租户参与实施衣物管理的机构较少; 6）衣物存放空间不足。所有NH的90%以上的租户住在多用户房间。他们无法管理自己的服装。

For the purpose of investigation of the tenants' clothing life style in special nursing home for the aged (NH), we carried out a questionnaire survey to all institutions in Japan in 1999. 645 institutions -21.7% of all those-replied to this. And in 2000, we investigated users of a day service center (SC) for the similar purpose. The results are as follows ;1) The NH tenants' clothes are controlled by the convenience of care workers and the maintenance of cloth-mainly the ease of washing. The SC users' clothes are not controlled in the same way.2) The NH tenants' hair style is mainly close-cropped in male, short-cut in female. The SC users' is mainly short-cut in both sex.3) Almost all managers of NH have recommended for new tenants to wear "loose" clothes. Approximately half of them, to wear "front opening" one especially for disabled persons. Approximately 1/3 of them, to avoid "iron-press needed" and "laundry-service needed". As the result of those, the outlook of tenants tends to show worn-out one.4) Almost all institutions have and are using usually the big-laundry-machine and the big-drying-machine. Iron-press services are provided in merely 1/4 institutions.5) It is a few institutions to accept the participation of tenants to execute managing clothes.6) The storage spaces of clothes are not enough. More than 90% tenants of all NH live in multi-users rooms. So, they cannot manage their own clothing life.