Examination of body functions according to level of care needed in staying and weakness senior citizens

[Purpose]:The purpose of this research is to examine body functions in a regional weak living and the nursing necessary senior citizen and the relations to the nursing necessary level. [Subject]:A regional weak living and needed nursing 167 senior citizens were targeted. [Method]:The object person was analyzed, and the crowd division was done according to the nursing level, and the relation between body functions and the nursing level was analyzed. [Result]: The nursing level decreases the capacity of balance, the lower limbs muscular power, the whole body endurance, and the ambulatory ability and the ability has decreased with advancing. However, the relation to the nursing level was not admitted as for the arm muscular power and flexibility. [Conclusion]: It was suggested that it was necessary to make the best use of this result for the programs aimed at preventing elderly people requiring nursing care from further losing physical and mental strength.