Interprofessional Cooperation ICT Program Development Aimed at “Nutrition Improvement”

Abstract

To promote care planning that prevents the progression of care dependency among care service users by improving their nutritional conditions, we examined the status of ICT use for such planning and contents of care plans, involving 714 care managers throughout Japan. Based on the results, we propose an ICT program to prevent the progression of care dependency among care service users by improving their nutritional conditions through interprofessional collaboration, adopting the following approaches: 1) standardizing assessment to create care plans that facilitate nutrition improvement, and organically reflecting challenges of such improvement on care plans, actively and effectively using ICT; 2) encouraging communities to share their care planning systems to promote the sharing of care plans for nutritional improvement with service providers; and 3) promoting interprofessional collaboration by sharing the systems. ＜Key-words＞ interprofessional collaboration, ICT program, nutrition improvement, prevention of the progression of care dependency

Structure of Care Managers' Approaches to and Awareness of "Nutritional Improvement" for Care-dependent Older People

“…In a previous study examining the status of using information and communication technology (ICT) in the process of creating care plans, the use rate was generally high, but it was also suggested that ICT did not function as a problem-solving tool to link assessment and care plans and share the latter with service providers (Fujio, Enomoto, Furukawa, et al, 2019).…”

Relationship of “Tooth Condition” with Mobility and Cognitive Function of Residents in Special Elderly Nursing Homes Practicing Functional Recovery Care

“…4) Concerning cooperation for "improving nutrition", we proposed the necessity of organic cooperation by the standardization of assessment and utilization of ICT. 5) We further clarified the relationship between "food type" and independence of physical/mental functions in older people requiring nursing care for the realization of "nutritional improvement" in the local comprehensive care system in Japan. 6) In this study, we hypothesized that the "tooth condition", which affects the "food type", is related to the independence of mobility and cognitive functions of older people requiring nursing care and examined the hypothesis in the residents of special elderly nursing homes.…”