移動沐浴車 沐浴서비스 受惠老人 事例硏究

Abstract

This study was intended to make a comparative analysis of the living attitude of the beneficiary from the bathing service of the mobile bath car effected by the Pyounghwa Comprehensive Social Well-being Center located in Nowon-ku, Seoul. The individual in-depth research method, of qualitative research methods, was used as the research method. This study was focused on the issues related to health and sanitation such as how the aged lived a bed-ridden life at home through their one-day life cycle and daily affairs, what was the problem of the physical cleanliness for their current sanitary health and how much they were satisfied with mobile bathing service. 7 male and 8 female old people comparatively able to communicate with each other were selected from the aged benefitting from the mobile bathing project. The mobile bathing service project was intended for those living a bed-ridden life for a long time due to senile dementia, palsy, serious handicaps and the like. That is, it was intended to help them maintain the good sanitary and clean condition, relieve their family of emotional and physical burden and provide hard-to-act and handicapped old people with preventive education on palsy and dementia and to provide bathing service for the elderly afflicted with serious complications resulting from long disorders, mental troubles, spinal paralysis, the seriously handicapped from muscle dystrophy and the like. It is highly evaluated as the well-being project that is drawing attention to the local community. An attempt was made to present an realistic alternative to activating our mobile bathing service project in infancy into the productive bathing well-being one as follows: First, it is necessary to expand and implement the mobile bathing project because the periodic and continual implementation of the mobile bathing service project can improve the sanitary state of the patients afflicted with palsy and dementia and mitigate the burden of their family. Second, it is necessary to consider the plan to raise the efficiency of the mobile bathing service project. Third, sanitation management and specialized educational activity should be systematically provided at a time of mobile bathing service. Fourth, mobile bathing service can be thought to be a kind of health nursing service and especially, comfortable and safe bath and nursing for patients may be the important project. Fifth, it is necessary to consider the scheme to establish the bathing facility within the social well-being facility to enhance the efficiency of mobile bathing service and provide bathing service with mobile bathing vehicle service. Sixth, it is necessary to organize the(tentatively called) mobile bathing well-being research institute composed of authoritative scholars and specialists from the medical community and the social well-being community with an aim of activating our mobile bathing service in infancy, enhancing the qualitative level of service and further, spreading and improving bathing well-being.