A Survery on the Way of Life of Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries in a Rural Community.
10.2185/jjrm.43.72
- VernacularTitle:農山村地域における頚髄損傷患者の社会生活調査
- Author:
Takuya MACHIDA
;
Shigemitsu HIRAYAMA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1994;43(2):72-76
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
We conducted an interview survery on the social self-sustenance of two groups of people with cervical spinal cord injuries, most difficult to cure, in a rural environment where aging, family nuclearization and depopulation are in progress. One group was composed of those staying at home (10 males) and the other, of those accommodated in a care facility (nine males, one femal). In the survery, we compared social lives of patients who associate with healthy people in their community and those who see only fellow patients in the care facility. When it comes to the basis for their livelihood, both groups were significantly reliant on pensions.
Even those patients with so severe disorders as to need help in most part of their everyday lives could be expected to display ability of a kind which is not readily conceivable in light of the conventional criteria for the assessment of physical functions thanks to the use of office-automation equipment. Whether home care for patients with severe disorders could be provided effectively or not depends much on whether they could find their place in their homes as a respectable member of the family, aside from the degree of severity. This factor is more decisive for patients with desorders in the facilities than those at home.
