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Home rehabilitation project for home-bound physically disabled people in Yokohama

A. Hakuno

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yohohama Rehabiritation Center — 'Rainbow Kawasaki', Center for the Severely Physically Handicapped People in Kawasaki, 5-8-10 Higashi-Arima, Miyamaeku Kawasaki, Japan 216

T. Ito

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yohohama Rehabiritation Center

J. Koike

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yohohama Rehabiritation Center

T. Matsuba

Department of Community Service, Yokohama Rehabilitation Center, Yokohama

S. Watanabe

Department of Community Service, Yokohama Rehabilitation Center, Yokohama

S. Fujii

Department of Community Service, Yokohama Rehabilitation Center, Yokohama

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of home-visit rehabilitation.

Design: Before/after trial.

Setting: Home-visit rehabilitation in Yokohama city.

Subjects: Four hundred and seventy-five of 601 cases that received services during 1992, and 141 of 186 cases that received sequential visits.

Interventions: Comprehensive home-visit rehabilitation.

Main outcome measures: (1) Carer's response on change in care burden; (2) improvement in personal care performance.

Results: Care burden decreased in 40.8% of 475 subjects. All of the 141 cases that received sequential visits gained proficiency in personal care.

Conclusion: Improved performance of daily activities and reduction of care burden were found for most subjects after the rehabilitation visits.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 10, No. 4, 283-287 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/026921559601000404
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