Abstract
This paper attempts to review recent trends in policies for the elderly and the aging, clarify how policies change, and discuss important research themes in this field. This study first reviews trends in the following three aspects . The first is the ideal types of caregiving in the long-term care insurance system. The second is the policy that determines the quantity of care resources. The third is the policy that regulates the caregiving relationship. From this overview, we identify two issues in this field. The first is that the current model of caregiving tends to be distant from the original idea to help the elderly independent . We need to evaluate this tendency. The second is that there is a restructuring of systems under the tendency of reining the total amount of medical and elderly care benefits. We need to investigate how to develop the restructuring in each field.
