A Study of Social Support to The Elderly and Regional Characteristics

本研究的目的是为了证明社会对老年人的支持与区域财产和城市化的关系。为此，我于2001年和2002年对水户市中部的4个地区进行了调查。我们在研究中发现了各种各样的知识。我们在研究中证明了我们的假设。(1)我们可以建立我们的假设；社会支持与区域财产和城市化有密切关系。(2)区域属性和城市化对老年人社会支持有影响。(3)地域性与社会支持，这两个假设是相互关联的。我很有信心，我们的研究是非常有用的，使社区照顾老年人的未来。

The aim of this research is to demonstrate the social supports for the elderly people with the relationship to the regional property and urbanization. According to this aim, I investigated four areas in the middle of Mito City in the year 2001 and 2002. We found various knowledge in our research. We demonstrated our hypothesis on our research.(1)We could established our hypothesis ; the social support had a relationship to the regional property and urbanization.(2)The regional property and urbanization had a influence to the social support for the elderly people.(3)The regional property and social support, these two suppositions are mutually related.I had very confidence that our research was very useful to make a community care for the elderly people in future.