Investigation of Dementia Care in Facilities for Elderly People : Discussion Based on Questionnaire Distributed to Employees in Facilities for Elderly People

A questionnaire was distributed to 788 employees in facilities for elderly people in order to find out about the situation as regards dementia care. The questionnaire investigated whether there was any difference in dementia care depending on employees' attributes and the care level required by elderly dementia patients. An analysis of the results showed that (1) the questionnaire about care to encourage autonomy consisted of there parts : predictive power, environmental adjustment and grasp of individuality and while there was a bias in the distribution of high scores for predictive power, there was no bias for environmental adjustment or grasp of individuality (2) employees with many yeas of experience scored higher for environmental adjustment and grasp of individuality, and carried out care to encourage autonomy to a greater extent than less experienced employees (3) employees who took part in training and were interested in dementia care carried out care to encourage autonomy to a greater extent than employees who did not participate in training and were interested in areas other than dementia care (4) employees dealing with elderly dementia patients requiring a low level of care scored higher in all three areas i.e. predictive power, environmental adjustment and grasp of individuality, and prvided care to encourage autonomy to a greater extent, than employees dealing with patients requiring a high level of Care