SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE ELDERLY WHO ARE CARED BY SEPARATELY LIVING FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE UNPOPULATED AREA.

本研究的目的是探讨在无人居住地区老年人及其家庭成员的支持系统。重点是老年人家庭，他们得到单独生活的家庭成员的支持。我们假设每个周末单独居住的家庭成员都要去老人的家里，以支持老人的日常生活，老人可以依靠这种支持生活。所以我们认为这可以称为“周末护理”。它由两项研究组成。在一年的时间里，对无人区19户75岁以上老人进行访谈，对2名单身老人和4对夫妇进行家访。我们调查了他们的日常生活和来自他们单独生活的家庭成员的支持。结果，有19个老年家庭与子女进行了交流。子女的访视频率从一年3次到每天一次不等。探望的频率取决于老人的需要和孩子的日程安排。来自儿童的支持更多的是经济支持、精神支持和保持社区互助。老年人的子女、兄弟姐妹、亲属、邻居、社区官员和服务提供者对老年人的支持各有特点。在我们访问的6个老年家庭中，其子女的访问频率各不相同。所有老年家庭的日常生活都由子女负担。老年人及其子女需要的支持包括对儿童健康、获得服务、在社区建立支持网络等方面的支持。最后，孩子们不仅周末去看望他们的父母。对于这种情况，“通勤护理”是一个合适的表达。“通勤家庭”也很适合形容这种情况的家庭。对通勤照护和通勤家庭的支持包括：照护管理者对儿童健康的支持和对老年人及其单独生活家庭成员的支持，公共卫生护士和护士对儿童的支持，健康照护和日常生活的居家照护服务，与社区邻居的支持网络，以保障老年人的安全，保持社区互助。少

The purpose of this study is to discuss the support system for the elderly and their family members in the unpopulated area. It is focused on the elderly household that they received the support from separately living family members. We supposed that separately living family members visit to the elder's house every weekend for the support elder's daily life and the elderly can live by that support. So we supposed that was able to call ‘weekend care'.It was consisted of two studies. They are the interview to the 19 elderly households age over the 75 years old in an unpopulated area and home visiting to the 2 single elderly and 4 couples during one year. We investigated their daily life and the support from their separately living family members.In the result, 19 elderly households communicated their children. The frequency of the visit by their children ranged from 3 times in a year to everyday. The frequency of the visit depended on the elder's need and child's schedule. The means of t … More he support from children were financial support, mental support and keeping the mutual aid in the community. The support for the elderly from their children, their brothers and sisters, their relatives, their neighbors, the officers in the community, and the service providers had respective characteristics. In the 6 elderly households we visited, the frequency of the visit by their children was varied. All elderly households had supported their daily life by their children. The support that the elderly and their children needed were support to the child's health, accessing to the service, developing the support network in the community, and so on.Finally, children visited their elder parents not only weekend. ‘Commute care' is a suitable expression for that situation. And ‘Commute family' is also suitable expression for the family like that situation. Supports for the commute care and commute family were as following : support to the child's health and support for the elderly and their separately living family members by care-manager, support for the children by public health nurse and nurse, home care service for health care and daily life, support network with neighbors in the community in order to guard the elderly safety and to keep the mutual aid in the community. Less