THE MECHANISM AND THE STRATEGIES BY WHICH ELDERLY WOMEN MAINTAIN THEIR HEALTH CARE AT HOME

本研究旨在探讨老年女性自我保健生活策略的差异。本研究采用直接访谈和归纳观察两种方法，分析了老年妇女的两种生活方式：（a）独自在家生活和（B）与家人一起生活。这些分析表明，住在家里的老年妇女照顾的访问护士往往发挥自己的生活的主要人物的角色，也保持自己的身份，这不能观察到的老年妇女生活在养老院。与家人同住的女性对上门护士的亲密感与对家人的亲密感一样多，主要是为了顺利获得医疗服务，这被称为“准家庭化行动”。在母子关系方面，与家人同住的女性表现出了“母子关系”的再生产行为。

This study attempts to clarify the difference in life strategies of those elderly women who contrive to maintain their own health care. Two types of life-styles of elderly women, (a) living at home by themselves and, (b) living with family although in the daytime she is left alone-were analyzed by two methods, i) direct interviews and, ii) observing participants inductively. These analysis show that elderly women living at home cared for by the visiting nurses tend to play the role of the main person on their own lives and also to maintain their selfidentity, which can not be observed among elderly women living in the old-age nursery institute. Women living at home with family showed as much intimate feeling toward visiting nurses as toward family members, mainly in an effort to smooth their health care, which is named "parafamiliarized action". And as to the relations between mother and child, women living with family showed the behaviors to reproduce "the mother and infant relationships".