Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to show the backgrounds to the public scheme which improves the living environment for elderly metropolitan housing residents, to research how elderly in TOYAMA-HAITSU use the public scheme, to evaluate the effectiveness of the public scheme and clarify future challenges. The results are as follows: Public schemes for residential environment improvement have been regularly reviewed, which leads to scheme update. It has been about 10 years since Long-term care insurance was introduced. Persons approved to need long-term care use long-term care insurance system and Shinjuku city welfare service. On the other hand, the independent healthy elderly improve their residential environment by home renovation at their own expense. For the elderly living safe in their home, improvement of public scheme for home renovation and familiarizing the independent elderly to the public scheme are required.
