Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of home-visit rehabilitation. Design: Before/after trial. Setting: Home-visit rehabilitation in Yokohama city. Subjects: Four hundred and seventy-five of 601 cases that received services during 1992, and 141 of 186 cases that received sequential visits. Interventions: Comprehensive home-visit rehabilitation. Main outcome measures: (1) Carer's response on change in care burden; (2) improvement in personal care performance. Results: Care burden decreased in 40.8% of 475 subjects. All of the 141 cases that received sequential visits gained proficiency in personal care. Conclusion: Improved performance of daily activities and reduction of care burden were found for most subjects after the rehabilitation visits.
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