Ken Miura

EFFECTS AND ISSUES OF “COOKING IN A UNIT KITCHEN” IN SPECIAL NURSING HOMES FOR THE AGED

This studies the effects and Issues of “Cooking in a Unit Kitchen” in Special Nursing Homes for the Aged from the Study of 14 hours examination and analysis in Living Rooms and Behavior Tracking of cooking staffs. We could get following conclusions.1. Living Room environment in Special Nursing Homes is really important for the Aged from the data of 1) residents mean sojourn time in a Living Room was more than 7 hours and 2) mean mealtime was about 2 and half hours in 14 hours a day.2. Watch over the Aged and communicate with the Aged would be prospected when cooking staffs work in a unit kitchen, because 2 cooking staffs were working more than 10 hours a day in front of the Aged.3. Due to “Cooking in a Unit Kitchen”, cooking sounds created a good family environment in a Special Nursing Home for the Aged.

RELATION OF POSTURE, BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS AND SLEEP-WAKE RHYTHM OF THE SEVERELY FRAIL ELDERLY

This study Glarifi ¢ d relation of posture, behavioral patterns and sle ¢ p−wake rhythm of nursing homG residents with deterioratedADL. The methOds utilized were a behavioral tracking survey , a questlonnaire survey and observa 恒on by actigram .The results areas follows: 1)Changes of posture from lying, to sitting on a floor, and to sitting on a chair incrcased the ratio of awakening state accordingly ,2)When timc of ambulation became below”about 150−210