Validation of the Japanese version of the quality of life-Alzheimer's disease for nursing homes.

Objectives: This study aims to validate the Japanese version of Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease for Nursing Homes (QOL-AD NH). This is the modified version of QOL-AD, initially developed for residents living with dementia in long-term care settings.

Methods: Psychometric assessment was conducted in a sample of 101 residents and their professional care staff to obtain self-ratings and proxy-ratings of QOL, respectively.

Japanese Translation and Validation of the Environmental Assessment Tool-Higher Care.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to translate the Environmental Assessment Tool-Higher Care (EAT-HC) into Japanese and validate its use in small-scale group living facilities in Japan.

Background: Environment of a facility is shown to improve its residents' quality of life (QOL). Japan's "welfare-based nursing homes for the elderly" are gradually shifting to a small-scale group living concept called group care units (GCUs).

[The influence of types of living alone on 2-year health changes according to elderly adults' marital status: Based on the Comprehensive Regional Studies for Preventing Isolation of the Elderly Who Live in Metropolitan Area (CAPITAL Study)].

Objectives　The aim of this research is to classify elderly adults who live alone by their marital status type and to clarify how those types affect their higher-level functional capacity and mental health with a 2-year follow-up survey.Methods　This research is based on the results from a survey in 2013. The base-line scores were from 757 participants who completed a survey by mail, carried out in B area of A ward, Tokyo, within the jurisdiction of community general support centers, with people who were not at nursing care levels 4 or 5 and who were not residents of welfare facilities.