A survey conducted by a caregiving website operated by Speee found that assistance with toileting was the most difficult aspect of home care, ranking first at 29.6%. Respondents were people aged 50 or older with caregiving experience, and the results of a multiple-answer question were also reported.
A survey of 1,048 people with experience providing care at home, limited to respondents aged 50 or older, collected the views of people with caregiving experience. It was conducted by Carethru Nursing Care, a review and experience-sharing website for care facilities operated by Speee.
The top 3 responses to the multiple-answer question on what had been difficult were all around 40%: accompanying someone to hospital or going out at 39.7%, assistance with toileting at 38.9% and assistance with meals at 37.1%.
When the results for the item selected as “particularly difficult” were compiled, assistance with toileting ranked highest at 29.6%, 2.4 times the 12.4% for dealing with dementia symptoms. This was followed by anxiety with no clear end in sight at 8.9% and accompanying someone to hospital or going out at 7.9%.
When respondents were divided by sex, level of care required, the person receiving care, working style and personality type, assistance with toileting ranked first in all 21 categories. The results also confirmed a tendency for the proportion selecting assistance with toileting as the most difficult item to increase as the level of care required became more severe.
By personality type, 25.4% of completion-and-responsibility types said that situations in which they could not have time for themselves were particularly difficult, compared with 15.0% of support-seeking-and-cooperative types. No major difference was found in the burden of the care itself, but the results indicated that people who tend to shoulder responsibilities alone are more likely to find it difficult to secure time for themselves.