Case study on the local support environments for the elderly to continue to live in their own community

正规的照护服务很难赡养所有的老年人。本文明确了城镇居民非正式支持共存场所的实际情况，并对其特点和背景进行了探讨。为4人举行了听证会和现场观察。因此，关注他们被视为非正式的支持。他们的场所已经从居民的聚会场所，成员的老龄化。地方关系和共存场所的连续性是非正式支持的背景。为了保持场所的连续性，可达性和适合共存的物理环境非常重要。

It is difficult to support all of the elderly by the formal care services. This paper clarifies actual conditions of places of coexistences for informal supports by inhabitants in a town, and discusses on its characteristics and backgrounds. Hearing and on-site observations were held as for 4 persons. As results, Keeping eyes upon them were seen as informal supports. Places of them have changed from inhabitants' gathering spaces, aging of members. Local relationships and continuity of the places of coexistences are backgrounds of the informal supports. For continuity of the places, accessibility and physical settings comfortable for coexistences are important.