Ovjectives
The purpose of this study is understand the usage of long-term care services in each daily living area and to clarify the issues of future area management, it’s using the long-term care insurance receipt held by local governments. The inflow and outflow of users of long-term care services between daily living area is grasped by using the geospatial information of user’s residence and long-term care offices. And, the knowledge on the completeness of using services in the daily living area is obtained.
Methods
Usage stats of long-term care services was grasped by the long-term care insurance receipt for a year. Analysis subjects of long-term care services is Home-visit care, Home-visit bathing service, Home-visit nursing care, Home-visit rehabilitation, Commuting for care, Commuting rehabilitation service, Short-term stay at a care facility, Medical care service through a short-term stay, Small-sized multifunctional in-home care.
Results and Conclutions
The finding from this study are discribed below.
1) It’s rely on the provision of services from offices outside the city regarding Home-visit care, Home-visit bathing service, Home-visit nursing care, Commuting for care, Commuting rehabilitation service, Short-term stay at a care facility.
2) Usage stats of Home-visit bathing service, Commuting rehabilitation service, Medical care service through a short-term stay, Small-sized multifunctional in-home care is rarely seen in mountainous areas, and the types of services that can be selected are limited.
3) Regarding Home-visit care, Commuting for care, Short-term stay at a care facility with a large number of office locations, there is a tendency to select an office farther from the place of residence than the nearest office. On the other hand, regarding Home-visit nursing care, Commuting for care, Commuting rehabilitation service, Short-term stay at a care facility with the number of offices is small, the proportion of users who select the nearest office is high.
4) Regarding services other than Commuting for care and Short-term stay at a care facility, more than half of the users use services outside the daily living area.
5) When the maximum available number of each area is estimated from the number of outpatient care facilities, and the ratio to the actual number of users is calculated, it exceeds 100% in nine daily living areas and completes service delivery within the daily living area. It was suggested that it could be increased.
Regarding the actual use of services that are not confined to the daily living area, it's can a positive perspective of freely selecting service offices that match the actual conditions of users. On the other hands, it's can a negative perspective of having to use services outside the daily living area, it's reason for insufficient number of facilities and capacity, quality of service, etc. affect user needs.
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