介護従事者が郷土食の知識を持つことの必要性 : 高齢者の生きがい支援ツールとして

The purpose of the present study was to survey the local foods of northern Miyazaki Prefecture using self-administered questionnaires and interviews for the caregivers of the dependent elderly persons. Many community-dwelling elderly individuals were familiar with local foods. Also, cooking and eating local foods contributed to improving communication among the elderly. Furthermore, we examined detailed information related to local foods. The caregivers recognized that local food was a very important factor for improving the QOL of the elderly. However, the caregivers had insufficient knowledge of local foods. These findings suggest that effective education about local foods for caregivers is necessary in order to raise the level of care

有効な介護予防対策の要因分析

The frail elderly has been defined as `high-risk elderly\u27 after the long-term care insurance law was revised in 2005. For the high risk elderly, some health programs have been conducted to prevent declining physical or mental activities. However, participants of the new health program were very low. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to find factors to reduce long-term care among community-dwelling elderly persons. In the target area, health promotion activity has already been high therefore the health program has been sustainable. Self-administered questionnaires and interviews were conducted to survey the effect of the health program in the successful area. The participants of the program were various types of the residents besides high-risk elderly persons. Public supports by local government and a powerful professional director were needed in order to develop an attractive program that matched the community situation. Furthermore, the role of community-leaders and volunteers were very important to begin the program. These findings suggest that it is necessary to nurture more community-leaders and volunteers for the sustainable program preventing long-term care

ひとり親家庭等の中学生に対する学習支援活動と教育行政のあり方に関する考察

　One of the major social problems in Japan is children living in poverty, especially among those raisedin a single parent household. These households usually cannot provide additional education support orwell-balanced meals according to the children’s needs.　In late 2015, K university initiated the “Learning support for junior high school children from singleparent households” program (also known as the “J-Project”). The aim of the J-project is to improvechildren’s learning capabilities and provide well balanced meals with cooking lessons. The initiative wasfinancially supported by N-city local government.　We analyzed the J-project based on the completion report submitted to N-city and found positiveoutcomes as follows: ① most students have been able to concentrate on their studies more; ② all sixstudents of the third grade of junior high schools have joined high schools of their choice. However, wealso found some problems in implementing this project. The most serious was insufficient coordinationbetween the Welfare Sections and the Board of Education in the same municipality. We suggest that thehead of the municipality should show strong leadership in coordinating with all concerned sections,especially the Board of Education, so that many children can be freed from the cycle of poverty throughthis learning support program

The 2nd DBCLS BioHackathon: interoperable bioinformatics Web services for integrated applications

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The interaction between biological researchers and the bioinformatics tools they use is still hampered by incomplete interoperability between such tools. To ensure interoperability initiatives are effectively deployed, end-user applications need to be aware of, and support, best practices and standards. Here, we report on an initiative in which software developers and genome biologists came together to explore and raise awareness of these issues: BioHackathon 2009.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Developers in attendance came from diverse backgrounds, with experts in Web services, workflow tools, text mining and visualization. Genome biologists provided expertise and exemplar data from the domains of sequence and pathway analysis and glyco-informatics. One goal of the meeting was to evaluate the ability to address real world use cases in these domains using the tools that the developers represented. This resulted in i) a workflow to annotate 100,000 sequences from an invertebrate species; ii) an integrated system for analysis of the transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) enriched based on differential gene expression data obtained from a microarray experiment; iii) a workflow to enumerate putative physical protein interactions among enzymes in a metabolic pathway using protein structure data; iv) a workflow to analyze glyco-gene-related diseases by searching for human homologs of glyco-genes in other species, such as fruit flies, and retrieving their phenotype-annotated SNPs.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Beyond deriving prototype solutions for each use-case, a second major purpose of the BioHackathon was to highlight areas of insufficiency. We discuss the issues raised by our exploration of the problem/solution space, concluding that there are still problems with the way Web services are modeled and annotated, including: i) the absence of several useful data or analysis functions in the Web service "space"; ii) the lack of documentation of methods; iii) lack of compliance with the SOAP/WSDL specification among and between various programming-language libraries; and iv) incompatibility between various bioinformatics data formats. Although it was still difficult to solve real world problems posed to the developers by the biological researchers in attendance because of these problems, we note the promise of addressing these issues within a semantic framework.</p

BioHackathon series in 2011 and 2012: penetration of ontology and linked data in life science domains

The application of semantic technologies to the integration of biological data and the interoperability of bioinformatics analysis and visualization tools has been the common theme of a series of annual BioHackathons hosted in Japan for the past five years. Here we provide a review of the activities and outcomes from the BioHackathons held in 2011 in Kyoto and 2012 in Toyama. In order to efficiently implement semantic technologies in the life sciences, participants formed various sub-groups and worked on the following topics: Resource Description Framework (RDF) models for specific domains, text mining of the literature, ontology development, essential metadata for biological databases, platforms to enable efficient Semantic Web technology development and interoperability, and the development of applications for Semantic Web data. In this review, we briefly introduce the themes covered by these sub-groups. The observations made, conclusions drawn, and software development projects that emerged from these activities are discussed

ホームヘルプサービスの利用者及び利用世帯に関する研究

ln this study, I aimed to reveal the present situation of home help service by investing the mind and body, family make up, etc., the aged persons living at home who are using the home help service. In 1999, before the healthcare insurance was started, I made an inquiry in the in-home care aged persons and analyzed the result. I observed that the necessity of home help service changed depending on various family reasons but not due to the level of healthcare. The makeup of households (for example, the existence of single aged person and handicapped person, etc.) will determine the amount of home help service

食支援を通した高齢者のQOLの向上と介護予防

Resulting from changes in the Nursing Care Law of 2006, preventative nursing care became a focus due to the increasing numbers of persons needing early stage nursing care. Nutrition has become one of the more important preventative nursing care approaches. The present study sought to investigate the orientations toward food service in nursing facilities for the elderly. Our focus was on how these facilities assessed eating and how information was shared. We found that 55% of the facilities we reviewed used an assessment sheet, and that 80% of this subgroup actively share the information between various care givers. Items such as nutrition, medical care and physical characteristics were more prevalent in the assessments, where as items relating to QOL, such as pleasure or satisfaction of eating, were lacking. There is a need for development of assessments that are based on QOL