ブラジル日系高齢者及び高知県高齢者における健康と人生評価について

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In this study, comparative studies on health and life evaluation were carried out using data from elder Japanese immigrant people in Brazil (the present study and previous study) and elder Japanese people in Kochi. To begin with, in the previous study, it was found that the highest prevalence of diseases was diabetes in elder people in Brazil. However, in the present study in Brazil, the heart disease was as high as about 3 times in prevalence than other regions. According to Inoue et al., in Brazil, lifestyle habit illness such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia has increased due to the change of the food habit. This could be related to the increase in the heart disease there. Previous study also showed that, although the self-supporting degree of ADL was relatively low (70%) in Brazil, significantly positive relationship between the self-supporting degree of ADL and their life evaluation was observed. On the other hand, the present study showed that, in spite of the high self-supported degree of ADL (over 80%) in Brazil, there were no significantly positive relationship between them. This may suggest some relation to occurrence of any specific disease there, because high prevalence of limb arthropathy was observed in Brazil in the present study, but not in the previous study. Therefore, this disease could be related to their low life evaluation owing to pain, in spite of the high ADL self-supported degree. Significant relationship between health and life perspective was observed regardless of different countries or regions. This fact may indicate that health is the most important factor in life. Inoue et al. in the previous study pointed out that pension income is low for elder Japanese people in Brazil, and thus they can not live on their pension only, but have to live on any other source of incomes, such as their children's income too. It is apparent that close relationship between parents and children still now persists in immigrant Japanese society in Brazil. However, increasing of nursing elderly persons such as bedridden old persons and dementia elderly persons may affect their relationship. Indeed, the present study showed more responders who answered non-positive relationships in their family relations. This result may reflect their economical problems.
2005-12-31

ブラジル日系高齢者及び高知県高齢者における健康と人生評価について

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