Abstract
In Japan, the long-term care insurance system was instituted in April 2000. More than eight years have passed since this insurance system began, and much interest is now focused on the quality of elderly care. In this insurance system, elderly care is provided according to care plans that are designed by care managers. It is essential to establish a methodology for determining appropriate care plans in order to ensure the quality of elderly care. As a model for determining elderly care on ADL according to a person's status, the process model for determining elderly care on ADL was proposed. This model consists of both a detailed procedure and a database structure that is required for that procedure. And the validity of the model design has been confirmed. However, detailed knowledge contents are needed in order to make efficient use of this model. In this paper, therefore, we aim to develop detailed knowledge contents required for the process model for determining elderly care on ADL. We first identified the requirements for developing appropriate knowledge contents. Then we developed detailed knowledge contents required for the model by structuralizing technical knowledge based on those requirements. Further, we made a verification to assess the validity of the developed knowledge contents by applying it into actual cases.
