A study on the provision of logistical support to care managers dealing with cases of elderly abuse : social worker awareness at community comprehensive support centers

Shiota Shoko, Taniguchi Yuya

doi:10.14988/pa.2019.0000000084

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高齢者虐待対応におけるケアマネジャーへの後方支援のあり方に関する研究 : 地域包括支援センターの社会福祉士の気づきに焦点を当てて
コウレイシャギャクタイタイオウニオケルケアマネジャーエノコウホウシエンノアリカタニカンスルケンキュウ : チイキホウカツシエンセンターノシャカイフクシシノキズキニショウテンオアテテ

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Abstract

Although more than half of nursing-care recipients, who are victims of elderly abuse, have primary nursing-care-requirement authorization, the number of cases of care managers consulting with and contacting regional comprehensive support centers is insufficient. Reasons for this must be investigated to improve the situation of the abused elderly. To this end, past cases wherein a care manager dealing with elderly abuse has sought consultation or has communicated with a social worker and a social worker's supervisor have been reviewed. The findings established differences in the characteristics of both care givers and care recipients, as well as the approach taken by the care manager in response to the specific circumstances of each case. Additionally, interviews with care managers indicated that community comprehensive support centers take a rather "passive" approach to the abuse of the elderly. The findings suggest that the habitual level of trust in the community support center can directly influence the ways in which elderly abuse cases are handled, thereby reconfirming the necessity and importance of linking the protection of rights and logistic support for care managers, which are both functions of the community support center. This suggests the necessity of social workers themselves, confirming whether they fully view care managers as fellow consultation and support specialists (i.e., the necessity of confirming their perspective on care managers) and implies that this confirmation, at the same time as being a reflection of habitual logistic support for care managers, helps

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評論・社会科学

評論・社会科学 (129), 29-43, 2019-05-31

The Association of Social Studies, Doshisha University

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