Evaluating Emergency Services in the Service-added Older Adults Housing in Osaka City Japan: A Case Study

Abstract

The number of transportation to the hospital transported according to ambulance service record by the Service-added Older Adults housing in Osaka City 60 years or older increases to 10,137 from 3,866 in 2016 from 2009 and increases to approximately 2 times with 48.8 from 120.2 by the a population of 10,000 hit 60 years or older. Staffs and family grasp the tendency of a state, the symptom in the normal and discover it early in the emergency, and it is demanded that they cope. It is evaluated the daily emergency services of internal and external causes taken to hospital at Service-added older adults housing in Osaka using the emergency records from 2012 to 2017, 23 transportations with consideration to time of day, place of occurrence and ages, nursing care level, the presence of the crisis of the dementia, and actual condition before and after transported to the hospital following 3 aspects were obtained: Internal diseases occupied 69.6%: Cardiovascular system heart trouble, cerebropathy, respiratory pneumonia, whole body symptom and sign et al. On the other hand, external diseases occupied 30.4%: Injury, blow, fracture, etc. A person with slight illness occupied half, and the transportation with more than of severer symptom to need emergency transportation was originally less than 40%. After a discharge, the ratio that a need of nursing care degree raised and the ratio of the service use increased was over 40% and it was double the person of non-emergency transportations ever.

Presenters

Tomoko Shigaki
Lecturer, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University of Economics, Japan

Hiromasa Yamamoto

Michio Miyano

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Presentation Type

Poster/Exhibit Session

Theme

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

KEYWORDS

Emergency Services

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