A Case Study on the Construction of the Network for Care Supporting Elderly People With Dementia

Abstract

The object of main enumeration is TOMONOURA, a port town represents the scene of SETONAIKAI. Furthermore, the aging rate has reached to 38% and solitude elderly people form 5.3% of population (3% of national average). The purpose of this investigation is to solve the structure of the community in TOMONOURA, how the community and the people living in TOMONOURA supporting the elderly people with dementia and the elderly people need requiring care.The results are described below. 1. The area as a community had been continued, it can be said that the soil in which the informal care network is made to form had already cultivated. 2. The impossible range on a life extension which does not try not to be and whose defence is possible is sphere which can correspond. 3. The role with a small-scale care �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� home was concerned with the area through "small-scale" formal care offer, and the role which digs up the "cooperation nature" which exists in the area potentially also came only by service which "it is small-scale" provides sure enough.4.The care network in TOMONOURA has been built by formation interpenetration related. Because small-scale care home can play a role effectively, and by regionality's being easy to be continued on the other hand inheriting regionality.

Model of a community‐based care environmental system for “aging in place” – A case study from a historical port town in Japan

“…In the existing research, Yan (2009) indicated that the care manager of Facility S deploys informal watching as one of the “neighbors” in this target area. In addition, 2 other points concerning the importance of coordination by care managers should be mentioned.…”

“…Nishino (2008) investigated the aspects of continuation in the relationships between people staying in a group living facility and the local living environment. Later, Yan (2009) provided an outline of various aspects of regional societies that support the lifestyles of the elderly with dementia in the targeted regions. Tobari (2004) classified the lifestyle environments of the elderly in rural districts from the perspective of ties to the community.…”