DISASTER-CAUSED DAMAGE LEVEL OF ORIGINAL HOME BRINGS ABOUT THE QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT PROBLEMS IN DAILY LIFE OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN TEMPORARY-HOUSIN

[Introduction and Objective] Four years have passed since the Great East Japan Disaster, government intends to demolish temporary housings. When left temporary housing, residents might have fewer supports than present and face to further problems presumably depended on the status of original home. We aimed to analyze how the difference of problems in daily life relates to the collapsed level of original home for reducing their future problems. [Methods] Subjects were 58 residents (age 75.1±7.0) in temporary housings, Fukushima, Japan, and were divided into three groups: A, 19 subjects with collapsed home; B, 21 with half collapsed; and C, 18 with no collapsed. Interview consisted of the semi-structured questionnaire of 29 question items over thematic of environment, volition, habituation and performance with 4-point scale between “many problems” and “extremely well”. For statistical analyses, we combined 4 scales into two groups as ”Problem” (“many problems”+“some difficulty”) and “Good” (“well”+“extremely well”). Basic information of QOL was obtained using SF-36. [Results and Conclusion] Higher scores were provided (P