APPROACH OF THE ESTABLISHED CARE SYSTEM ON THE AGED SOCIETY BY DEVELOPING THE REGULATIONS

COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BRITISH AND JAPANESE REGULATIONS

Abstract

It is important to increase care power while keeping care worker's health to enable care of disabled elderly in home in order to maintain a low birthrate aged society stability. Up to 80 percent of the home care workers have been afflicted by lumbago in Japan. Research of British regulations where the remarkable reduction of musculoskeletal-disorders (MD) has been realized has been compared to Japanese research related to the labor regulations. The consciousness, measure and its present condition towards MD reduction were investigated and clarified in the care work front. In order to decrease MD within the field of nursing and home care in Japan, the necessity for maintenance of the regulations was proved and described.