[A study on supporting methods for house-bound home care elderly to get independent life (1st report)--relation between ADL and daily hours out of bed].

It is important to prevent the House-Bound home care elderly from getting worse to the Bed-bound. We studied the relation between "daily hours out of bed" and the activity of daily living (ADL) estimated by FIM (Functional Independence Measure) in 50 house-bound home care elderly persons. Result are as follows; (1) The level of independence of "Toileting", one of the FIM self-care items, was most highly correlated with the "daily hours out of bed" in the house-bound home care elderly. (2) The level of independence of "Mobility to the Toilet" and "Bowel Control" were also highly correlated with the "daily hours out of bed" in the house-bound home care elderly. (3) The level of independence of "Toileting" had high correlation with a total score of FIM moter items in the house-bound home care elderly (r = 0.83, p < 0.001).