2022 Volume 3 Issue J2 Pages 1075-1081
Japan has now entered a super-aging society, and this has led to various problems such as increased medical and long-term care costs, a shortage of hospital beds, elderly care, and long-term care refugees. In response to these problems, there is an urgent need not only to review themedical and long-term care systems, butalso to create communities where elderly people cancontinue to live in the community even if they require long-term care. This study contributes to the construction of an efficient community comprehensive care system by utilizing data from the National Health Insurance Database, which is currently underutilized medical big data, to understand the local environment in which people certified as requiring support live in each detailed community unit, such as a town or district. We calculated the number of persons certified for support by region for persons aged 75 and over, and examined the relationship between the number of persons certified for support and regional characteristics that were quantitatively evaluated. As a result, the number of certified persons varied greatly from region to region, and regions withalarge number of persons certified as requiring support and poor living convenience, which is one of the regional characteristics, were identified.
