Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make clear what kind of effect medical treatment environment has on end-of-life care. We selected the long-term care ward of downsizing care with private room for a case study and carried out the survey for elderly family. The results of this study are as follows.1) The length of end-of-life care is about a month.2) Because of the physical condition aggravation of elderly, the number of times that family stays at the long-term care ward for the end-of-life period increases.3) Family in hope of a private room increases to have an individual relation for the end-of-life period.4) It is often that elderly and family stay in a private room for the end-of-life period. However, there is the family who uses public positively while judging physical condition of elderly.5) A constant medical treatment is performed for the end-of-life period, but most of elderly family determine palliative care as end-of-life care.
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