2019 Volume 39 Issue 2 Pages 218-221
Kobe city has established a local law to build a dementia-friendly community and has just started a public expenditure system for the diagnosis to dementia on January 2019. Additionally, Kobe city has started a compensation system of accidents caused by or involving dementia people on April 2019. The cost of these two systems are covered with an additional tax counting 400 yen per year per one citizen. These systems are called “Kobe model for realizing dementia-friendly community” and gathering considerable attention from other local governments. This review aims to introduce the Kobe model and to indicate some issues to be solved for establishing a real dementia friendly community.
