Should the provision of home help services be contained?: Validation of the new preventive care policy in Japan
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- 2 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 10 (1) , 224
Abstract
To maintain the sustainability of public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Japan, a preventive care policy was introduced in 2006 that seeks to promote active improvement in functional status of elderly people who need only light care. This policy promotes the use of day care services to facilitate functional improvement, and contains the use of home help services that provide instrumental activity of daily living (IADL) support. However, the validity of this approach remains to be demonstrated.Keywords
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