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| Needs measurement and estimation of the amount of health and welfare services required for the frail elderly | | Author(s) | Koichi Hiraoka, Yutaka Shimizu, Ikuko Nakano |
| Journal title | Review of Social Policy, no 5, March 1996 |
| Publisher | Social Development Research Institute, Tokyo, March 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1-24 |
| Source | Social Development Research Institute, 19-8, Akasaka 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Domiciliary services ; Long term ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this research was to estimate the amounts of health and welfare services required for frail older people for use in goal-setting in the Japanese Health and Welfare Plan for the Elderly. The data on 439 older individuals in need of care identified through a screening survey in Tokyo and the data on 662 cases of older people living alone in the same city were used in this research. The required service amounts were estimated using a method partially improved from that previously developed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. First, in regard to five major kinds of social care services, older people were classified into twelve needs types according to degree of physical and mental impairments and degree of difficulty experienced by family caregivers, and the required service amounts were estimated by a method in which standard service models were established for each needs type. For the other three kinds of services, the required service amounts were estimated by setting individual requirements for service utilisation. According to the estimated results, the majority of the number of beds required for long-term care facilities have been secured, while in-home services will need expansion (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980514226 A |
| Classmark | I: L: N: 4Q: IK: 4C: 7DT |
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