THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG TYPES OF DAILY LIVING ASSISTANCE AND LONG HOURS OF INFORMAL CARE

• Published in: Innovation in Aging Vol. 1; no. suppl_1; pp. 430 - 431
• Main Authors: Ueshima, H., Tamiya, N., Noguchi, H., Sandoval Garrido, F., Takahashi, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: US Oxford University Press (OUP) 30.06.2017; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Abstracts
• ISSN: 2399-5300; 2399-5300
• DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igx004.1546

Long hours of informal care cause adverse events among family caregivers. However, it is not certain what type of daily living assistance prolong time of informal care. The aim of this study is to determine the types of daily living assistance related to extensive time of informal care. We used the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions from 2007, 2010, 2013. It is a cross-sectional survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan. The subjects were care recipients over 65 years and their main family-caregiver, for a total of 6094 dyads included. Among them, there were 1638 care recipients with stroke and 1245 care receivers with dementia. We used ordered logistic regression analysis stratified by stroke patients and dementia patients to examine the relationship between the hours of informal care (lending a hand when needed, 2 to 3 hours or around half a day, and almost all day) and each daily living assistance adjusted for the characteristics of caregivers and care recipients. Our finding was that the daily living assistances associated with extensive time of informal care were: wiping the body, changing position, and taking medicine in stroke patients, while oral health, taking bath, and changing clothes in dementia patients. Toileting and feeding in both kind of patients. In conclusion, the types of assistance associated with long hours of informal care were different between stroke patients and dementia patients. It seems better to make separate plans to support family caregivers of stroke patients and dementia patients.