ニュージーランドにおける高齢者の健康意識に関する研究

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The government is making policies to help the elderly to live independently and promoting home support. As a result, many elderly people are enjoying independent lives supported by social welfare. With such government policies in the background, What kind of attitude to health do the New Zealanders adopt in order to maintain physical and mental health and lead independent lives? Ministry of Social Policies says that the primary environmental factors for preserving the independent of the elderly are adequate income, good health and social connections deciding factors for each individual's QOL and also lists feeling of safety and ability to manage oneself as common main factors. Adequate income is necessary for medical care, health insurance, appropriate home and maintenance of reasonable health. Essential factor for the ill or disable elderly to live independently is support and care of the family. Housewives are found to provide the greatest amount of unofficial care. In New Zealand, because of the increasing number of elderly women due to longer life expectancy and spread of care families, more and more people wish to enter care homes and nursing homes. Since the 1980s worry about the mounting cost of medical care and social welfare that accompanies the aging population has prompted the government to encourage home care. In the 1990s when National Party came to power, reform of social welfare system was carried out and the elderly people were asked and independence. 1993 saw serve founding cut to the support provided at care homes and nursing homes. As for the elderly who need help at home, free help is guaranteed from National Health Service. Some healthy and independent elderly people sell their own homes and buy rooms in city-center rest homes. Here, while receiving necessary help, they enjoy free and comfortable life style, taking part in various activity programs provided by the rest homes. Here, many elderly people lead independent lives supported by social welfare. I have surveyed how they maintain their physical and mental health at the independent level, their attitude to health, and how they endeavor to live independently; I am going to discuss how things actually stand. I will see how, in practice, the elderly people respond to the government surveys and policies. It is thought that many symptoms of physical decline in older age are caused by inactive life style. Respondents to my survey prove that moderate exercise and work improve their ability and help them to enjoy good mental health as well.
日本ニュージーランド学会の論文
2003-06-21

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原田壽子
立正大学社会福祉学部

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