Objectives : Based on the concept care-burden of major supporter to the elderly with dementia should be solved by not only their family but also our society, to figure out how the services of the dementia for the elderly residing at home(It is one of ...
Objectives : Based on the concept care-burden of major supporter to the elderly with dementia should be solved by not only their family but also our society, to figure out how the services of the dementia for the elderly residing at home(It is one of the in-forced official systems; dementia day-care service, dementia short stay service, dementia helper )respectively have an effect on the care-burden of their family. Besides, this study will propose the working way of domiciliary welfare service after looking into how the factor of objective stress(elderly cognitive and psychological impairment , ADL) , individual character of primary supporter(healthy condition, economic level and coping ability) and so on will affect the care-burden of major supporter to the elderly who using domiciliary welfare service.
Methods : For major supporter of the elderly using domiciliary welfare service(dementia day-care service, dementia short stay service, dementia helper), this study was enforced. Survey was carried out for 3 welfare facilities(dementia helper services have been executed), 18 dementia day-care services and 13 dementia short stay services from June 2004 to Sep 2004.
Results : First of all, as the matter-focused strategy was more used, the burden of supporter decreased and as more doing avoidance/flight/ reconstruction coping strategy, that of supporter increased. Besides, dementia helper services were more free from social restraint compared with dementia day-care services.
Secondly, as more using reconstruction coping strategy and avoidance/flight coping strategy, mental care-burden became increased.
Thirdly, as degenerative coping strategy was more used, economic care-burden increased. Moreover, dementia helper service gave relatively less economic care-burden compared with dementia short stay service.
Fourthly, as the level of elderly cognitive dysfunction, ADL were worse, in health aspect, the care-burden of supporter increased. Further more, as more using reconstruction coping strategy and avoidance/flight coping strategy, care-burden became increased.
Finally, the factor affecting the total care-burden were caused by the level of cognitive dysfunction, subjectively economic level, matter-focused coping strategy, avoidance/flight strategy and reconstruction strategy.
Conclusion : This study showed the working way of domiciliary welfare service to reduce the care-burden of supporter after figuring out how these(dementia helper, dementia day-care service and dementia short-term service) made an effect on that of supporter. This study has more meaning because there never have been any actual studies ondementia domiciliary welfare service. Especially, dementia helper dispatching business gave relatively less care-burden to supporter compared with dementia day-care and short-tem service. To investigate how dementia helper service affecting the care-burden of supporter and to evaluatethe utility provided the essential information of settlement to dementia domiciliary welfare service and enlarged enforcement of that. Besides, examining several factors having an effect on the subordinate to care-burden and comparing types of dementia domiciliary welfare services with one another will help establish the managerial way of dementia domiciliary welfare services for the future.