Acta Medica OkayamaVolume 54, Issue 2 2000 Article 4

APRIL 2000

Women’s anxiety in old age and long-termcare provision for the elderly.

Masayuki Kubota∗ Akira Babazono†

Hideyasu Aoyama‡

∗Okayama University,†Kyusyu University,‡Okayama University,

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Women’s anxiety in old age and long-termcare provision for the elderly.∗

Masayuki Kubota, Akira Babazono, and Hideyasu Aoyama

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify the differences in women’s anxiety in old age, theexpected long-term care provision, and the expected final location for terminal care for the womenthemselves and for their parents. In addition, we examined factors that related to their anxietyand needs. The subjects were 1,000 women of the Seikatsu Club customer cooperative associationin Chiba; 539 responded to our survey. The subjects were more anxious for their parents thanfor themselves. They more strongly expected long-term care for their parents to be provided bytheir family than they expected the same for themselves. Although no differences were observedin the expected location for terminal care, most subjects expected their home to be the terminallocation. Analysis by the multiple logistic regression model indicated that the following factorswere significantly related to the anxiety in old age: age odds ratio [OR = 1.81], employment [OR= 2.25] for women, and planning to live with parents [OR = 2.42], housing conditions [OR =0.56] for parents. The following factors were significantly related to the expected long-term careprovision: age [OR = 2.22] for women, and age [OR = 2.15], living with parents [OR = 3.58],and employment [OR = 2.33] for parents. Age [OR = 2.14] for women, and planning to live withparents [OR = 2.09] for parents were significantly related to the expected final location of terminalcare. This survey showed that women expected long-term care for their parents to be providedby their family, while many expected public long-term care services for themselves. This is thebiggest difference in women’s outlook on long-term care for their parents and for themselves.Multivariate analysis suggested that women aged 40 years or over, who will need long-term carein the future, tended to expect public home care services for themselves. It is virtually certain thatthe demand for public home care services will increase in the future.

KEYWORDS: long-term care, terminal care, family burden, puburic home care, public long-termcare insurance

∗PMID: 10806528 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINECopyright (C) OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL

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