Perspectives of nursing support

Support contents

Targeting and responding to the needs of a wide variety of subjects

Assessing not only the stage of lymphedema but also physical function (aging changes), lifestyle background, needs for care through home-visit nursing, housing environment, etc.

Care considering the characteristics of the elderly

Providing care not focusing on the characteristics of the elderly as disadvantages but instead focusing on the abilities of the elderly who have a lifestyle that they have devised in their life.

Guidance based on lifestyle and support for continuation

Providing guidance on daily life considerations in accordance with individual family backgrounds and lifestyles and providing support to keep up with daily life considerations.

Care closely linked to daily life utilizing the strengths of home-visit nursing

Care focusing on the “strengths” of home-visit nursing that enables visiting nurses to get a direct understanding of a patient’s life at home and values care practices with an approach to life.

Building relationships with family and people around the patient

Informal support (such as cooperation of family, relatives, friends in the neighborhood, and the community and public support centered on nursing care insurance services that support the elderly) and support for building good relationships.

Collaboration with multiple occupations in team care

Mitigating differences in the degree of understanding of care for lymphedema among multiple occupations and striving to devise collaboration methods, understand one another, and make adjustments.

Problems of the home-visit nursing system

Establishing a system that can be delegated to other occupations, utilizing the power of the family, and improving lymphedema care skills of visiting nurses in environments in which the visit time and frequency are limited and it is considered difficult to provide adequate lymphedema care.