小規模高齢者通所施設の利用実態と空間の使われ方の特性について

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In Japan, the space of day care centers run by the public insurance for the care needed is normaly unified into large one room type The purpose of this study is to report the actual conditions of mini day care centers, to examine chractenstics of space use and also to discuss the possibility and limitation of mini day care centers Interviews to staff and city government officers and on-site observations of activities were conducted in four mini day care centers in a city/Tokyo Analysis of users attributions showed there were two types, 'Health promoting Center' and 'House for the elderly with dementia 'And the former was also divided into two by whether they held activity programs or not.one was 'Salon type and another was 'Activity Program type 'And analysis of space use pattern, conbmations of numbers of activities and that of groups in a space, showed there was a condition peculiar to 'Salon type', that everybody shared a room with individual activities It was named a 'pararell situation' The paper concluded a possibility of mini day care center was to have such a social situation differnt from general day care centers, but also mentioned the limitation from the point of impossibility of continuous use of centers after they needed physical helps
2004-07-30