高齢者の一人暮らしを支える要因に関する研究 : 脆弱化後期高齢者の『我が家』での一人暮らしを支える要因

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We focused on late stage elderly with need of care who live alone at home. Moreover, we also clarified reasons for the continuation of living at home they have lived for a long period and factors for continuing to live there. Eight frail latter stage elderly persons living alone were the subjects of this study A semi-structured interview was performed, and its transcribed records were used as data, and analyzed by qualitatively and inductively. Consequently, 22 subcategories and 4 categories ("awareness" of elderly people themselves, "ability", "relationship" with others, and "social basis") were extracted, and their associations were clarified. Therefore, the factors involved in frail late stage elderly people continuing to live alone at home might be respect for subjects' "awareness" of living alone, support for the "relationship" such as bonds with their family and ancestors and exchanges with friends and neighbors, improvement in the "social basis" such as measures for the elderly and responses of the community, and support for the "ability" to live alone.