Abstract
During the rapid increasing in the aged population in Japan the private retirement home for the elderly, which aim at taking a function for securing the living of the aged, have been built in succession, and resulting in the increase of residential applicants.
This thesis is to clarify the question at issue and to search for the recommendable living ways of the elderly by the study on the comparison among 12 various scale private retirement homes for the elderly in Hyogo Prefecture (8 rental system type and 4 lifetime occupancy privileges (LOP) system type).
The results are as follows :
1) LOP system has more abundant equipment in comparison with rental system.
2) Notwithstanding the above fact, the evaluation of living conditions by the residents are appreciated by the majority of them in the rental system, whereas it depends on the managerial subjects in the large and middle scale LOP system. In case of the latter, the appreciation is obtained only on the condition of the coincidence between needs of residents and managerial system of such home.
All the residents of private retirement home are not the persons in the upper income bracket, and their income are widely distributed according to such factors as size of accommodation, management policy, amount of down payment etc., whereas LOP system homes increasing rapidly in numbers require a large amount of down payment.
This phenomenon means the lack of public-built residence for the elderly who are affordable to pay such high amount of down payment to enter LOP system home.
