Effectiveness of the Combination of Japanese Kampo and Western Medicine for Elderly Care in the Aging Society
10.2185/jjrm.63.624
- VernacularTitle:高齢社会に向けて東西医学の連携が高齢者ケアに果たす有効性の検討
- Author:
Toshinori NIMURA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2014;63(4):624-633
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
With the coming of an aging society in mind, the author used Japanese medicine together with Western medicine to examine the effectiveness in the case of elderly persons. Cases of BPSD (behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia) (ten persons), depressive symptom (ten persons), sleep disorder (ten persons), gait disturbance (ten persons), constipation (ten persons) and aspiration pneumonia (ten persons) were examined. Fifty-five persons out of sixty effectively responded to the East-West combined therapy. Team medical care was needed. It is required for the hospital to provide doctors and paramedics with a full-scale training course in Japanese Kampo medicine.
