特別養護老人ホームでの食事介助とその成立要件

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Feeding the elderly in a nursing home can be considered as interaction between a resident and a caregiver, influenced by the eating environment and the care policy. From such a point of view, this article aims to describe the feeding scene and its conditions and to analyze the method of eating of the elderly, which is a kind of "method of life in a nursing home". From 1994 to 1995, multi-method fieldstudy for one nursing home was carried out. Of all the data of this study, reports on a yearly project, news papers of the nursing home, records of various meetings, and natural observation data on feeding the elderly were analyzed. The main findings may be summurized as follows: (1) time and tempo of eating was variable between residents; (2) during feeding, caregivers "waited " for the behavior of the elderly; (3) in some cases, caregivers take the initiative in interaction, and othes in reverse; (4) the degree of freedom, such as (l),(2),and (3) was constructed by caregivers to make use of the eating environment according to their care policy. These findings suggest that residents who were fed have "knoweledge as doing eat" about 3 points , which are: 1, timing of opening one's mouse; 2, signs to stop caregiver feeding; and 3, existence of caregiver's reaction to 1 and 2.
早稲田大学の論文
1997-03-25