A study on a daily living area for a care service infrastructure

Case of Subsidies for development, etc. of care and welfare space in a community (for municipalities) of 2005

Abstract

Revision of The Long-term Care Insurance Law in 2005, the local government had to develop "A municipal development plan" to enhance Community-based service bases in the areas designated according to the elderly daily living area. The local government submits plan to the National Government and gets grant. This paper aims to investigate a scale of daily living area and planned Community-based services based on Subsidies for Development, etc. of Care and Welfare Space in a Community in 2005. The results of this study show that: 1)A daily living area is the same as one junior high school area in 39.2% of municipalities , smaller in 23.5%, and larger in 37.9%. , 2) Planned Community-based services are different depending on the daily living areas.