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Responses to Rental Housing for the Elderly During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Understanding the Deterioration of QOL of Elderly Residents (100391)
Sunday, 4 January 2026 11:10
Session: Poster Session 1
Room: Room 306
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
The study aimed to examine emergency response in normal times, how emergency medical information should be shared, and the health status of residents during the COVID-19 pandemic at serviced senior housing operators in Osaka City, the city with the largest number of such facilities in Japan. As a result, 70% (35 cases) of workplaces had cluster outbreaks. When asked about the time when the cluster outbreaks occurred, the highest number of cases was 11 in August 2022 (during the seventh wave). The physical and mental burden on both elderly residents and facility managers and staff was greatest when it came to "meetings and interactions with family", which were restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by "travel within the facility", "shopping", and "going to the hospital". The physical environment of elderly housing with services has space limitations, making it difficult to create storage facilities (including garbage storage) and places for staff to rest. While care was taken to prevent infection for residents who required severe care and were unable to move, there were many cases where residents with relatively mild dementia (who were able to move) did not understand the strict wearing of masks and restrictions on behavior, resulting in the zoning boundaries between contaminated areas (areas for infected people, areas for close contacts, areas for suspected patients) and areas where there was no possibility of infection becoming unclear.
Authors:
Tomoko Shigaki, Osaka University of Economics, Japan
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Tomoko Shigaki is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Osaka University of Economics in Japan
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