Abstract
This paper discusses the legal problem regarding pay nursing homes, which are a type of elderly housing. Recently, the number of elderly people in Japan is rapidly increasing. Therefore, elderly housing is currently a major concern in Japan. To deal with this situation, the Japanese government revised the long-term care insurance law and the old-aged persons' welfare last year. However, when elderly people make a contract before entering a pay nursing home, legal problems occur. Although how such problems can be solved has been intensively studied since the late 80s, the private law is still not satisfactory. This paper further develops the research that have been done heretofore, and discusses how the contract elderly people make when entering a pay nursing home is supposed to be. This paper also discusses how to ensure that elderly people do not have to worry about getting involved in legal problems and live in a pay nursing home until they die.
