Abstract
In this paper, we considered the conditions of the social support system and community environment for the independent elderly people by analyzing and understanding their social life in local community, based on the hearing investigation of 43 users of Ikigai Day Service Center in Tama city of Tokyo. As this study was focused on the independent elderly people, especially just before level of the elderly who becomes to need nursing care service, the result of this study will be useful for improving the social support system and community environment at the viewpoint of preventive approach in nursing care needs. It was found from the result that the independent elderly people's social life in local community is formed by interactions of various conditions, and there are several types in their social life in local community. Therefore, it is very important to improve the conditions of social support system and community environment and to provide independent elderly people with the suitable supporting environment through the well-consideration for the characteristics of each type.
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