Abstract

This study aims to clarify home environment modifications corresponding to the conditions of elderly people with dementia. A mail survey to 2000 cares managers. We investigated the present situations of home environmental modification in the questionnaires the mail survey which had twenty-five items. 254 elderly people were classified into four groups based on the eight items, adapting SOM. The four groups were “High-walking and high-orientation level”, “Middle-walking and middle-orientation level”, “High-walking and low-orientation level”, and “Low-walking and low-orientation level”. We found the characteristics of effectiveness of home modifications.

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