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）住户的着装生活方式，我们于1999年对日本各机构进行了问卷调查。645所大学（21.7%）回答了这一问题。2000年，我们为了类似的目的调查了一家日间服务中心（SC）的用户。研究结果如下：1) NH租户的服装控制在护理人员的便利性和衣物的保养性上，主要是易洗性。SC用户的衣服不以同样的方式控制。2) NH租户的发型男性以短发为主，女性以短发为主。SC用户主要是两性的捷径。3)几乎所有NH的经理都建议新租户穿“宽松”的衣服。其中大约一半的人，要穿“前开”式的，尤其是残疾人。大约三分之一的人，以避免“需要熨烫”和“需要洗衣服务”。因此，租户的前景往往呈现出一种破旧的面貌。几乎所有的机构都有并且正在使用大型洗衣机和大型烘干机。只有1/4的机构提供熨烫服务。5)少数机构接受租户参与管理服装。6)衣服的存放空间不够。超过90%的NH租户住在多用户房间。因此，他们无法管理自己的服装生活。

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.