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In recent years an increasing number of patients who require dialysis treatment for an extended period of time because of diabetic nephrosis, and an increasing number of aging people who have needed to receive dialysis treatment for an extended period of time as well as other aging patients have found it necessary to receive care from nursing attendants. It has become difficult for those with physical disabilities and aged people to enter medical and nursing institutes and nursing home because of Government measures and regulations, coupled with the difficulty of obtaining nursing attendants to accompany them to the facilities for dialysis treatment. Under these circumstances large numbers of people have been compelled to receive care at home.In order for them to continue to receive such care to home, it is vital that they be provided with the necessary means of transportation to a hospital and someone to take care of them. A lack of necessary support for such nursing attendant will prevent them from providing satisfactory services. There are limits to what we can expect of public resources and local governments, and it is important to lighten the burdens of those attendants by expanding the activities of volunteer workers such as taking patients to a hospital, helping them with household work and distributing meals, and by becoming familiar with them and improving their living conditions. |