A CASE STUDY ON GRASP OF COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND SOCIAL WELFARE NEEDS FOR “COMMUNITY-BASED WELFARE PLAN”

Abstract

The Community-Based Welfare Plan is required to integrate various social welfare needs to support such as elderly people, disable people, and nursing children with in the community.
The case study was conducted in a rural town of Minabe with 14000 populations. The plan was established in basis of the following three phases.
Phase 1: analysis of community social welfare database
Phase 2: collecting welfare needs by questionnaire method
Phase 3: grasp of community social needs and the opinions by citizenparticipatory workshop
The plan considered various characteristic such as the population scale, an extent of community, urban or mountain areas et all in arch district ofthe town.