Nursing Practice Promoting Community Social Support Networks for the Elderly

该项目的目的是描述公共卫生护士（phn）促进社区老年人社会支持网络的有效护理实践。首先，我们明确了健康状况与老年人日常生活和社区社会支持网络的关系。数据收集自对日本A市84名75岁独居老人的家访访谈调查。结果显示，与家人、朋友、邻居关系良好或有爱好和兴趣的老年人对自己的健康状况表现出更积极的感觉。他们还发现，老年人对自己的健康状况有更积极的感觉，不仅得到了支持，而且提供了支持。在该项目的第二年，我们研究了初级保健护士促进社区老年人社会支持网络的护理实践。我们选择了17例强调公共卫生护理促进社区社会支持网络的病例报告。我们从中选择了5个病例，并对涉及的phn进行了采访，了解他们的做法。通过对访谈数据的分析，我们得出以下特征对有效的护理实践至关重要，促进社区老年人社会支持网络；评估长者的需要或优先次序，透过PHN的日常社区活动推广网络，支持或鼓励在长者活动中扮演重要角色的义工及社区领袖。

The purpose of this project was to describe the efficient nursing practice by public health nurses (PHNs) promoting community social support networks for the elderly.First, we clarified the relationship between health status and the daily life of the elderly and community social support networks. Data was collected from the interview surveys of home visits to 84 elderly people aged 75-years who lived independently in City A in Japan.Results exhibited that elderly people that had good relationships with family members, friends and neighbors or hobbies and interests displayed more positive feelings about their health conditions. And they also found that the elderly people had more positive feeling about their health conditions not only received support but also provided it.In the second year of the project, we examined nursing practices by PHNs promoting community social support networks for the elderly. We chose 17 case reports that emphasized on public health nursing in promoting community social support networks. From these we selected 5 cases and performed interviews with the PHNs involved about their practices.After analyzing the interview data, we conducted that the following characteristics were vital to efficient nursing practice promoting community social support networks for the elderly; to assess needs or priorities for the elderly to promote networks through PHN's routine community activities, to support or encourage volunteers and leaders in the community who played important roles in the activities for the elderly.