Abstract

For about half of more than six-million Japanese carers, balancing work and long-term care for frail older adults is very important. The Japanese government has been making an effort to stop carers leaving, but studies on working carers from carers’ Quality of Life (QOL) perspectives are limited. Therefore, the purpose of this presentation is to explain QOL of working carers based on analyses of the Japanese-version Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers (ASCOT-Carer) and to explore factors which influence their QOL. To achieve this, we conducted a web survey for Japanese working carers taking care of the users of Long-term Care services (N=600 ; Age M=51.6, SD=8.9) in March, 2018. We measured their QOL using Japanese version of the ASCOT-Carer SCT4 (7 domains) and analysed the relationship between their QOL and factors such as gender, health, marital status, satisfaction, loneliness, etc. With data analyses, we found working carers who indicated bad health conditions and dissatisfaction with human relationships at workplace were more likely have lower QOL scores than those who did not. In addition, the score of QOL of married working carers were higher than those of single carers. Gender and level of care-needs of the users were not related to QOL. Our findings suggest that the health condition of working carers and working situations are one of the main factors to worsen their QOL. Further analyses will be needed. Our research was supported by JSPS, KAKENHI-B 16H03715.

Presenters

Mai Yamaguchi

Ikushi Yamaguchi

Hiromi Nakamura

Stacey Rand

Kamilla Razik

Akemi Matsuzawa

Machiko Ohara

Keiko Hirose

Eiko Hhorikoshi

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging

KEYWORDS

Quality of Life (QOL), Carer, Work and Care balance

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