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Bed-ridden elderly in Japan: social progress and care for the elderly
Author(s)	Kaori Imai
Journal title	International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 46, no 2, 1998
Pages	pp 157-170
Keywords	Bedridden ; Services ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Personnel ; Policy ; Japan ; International.
Annotation	The demand for health care and social welfare services for older people has increased in Japan, and there is a need for services to assist older people to attain the best possible quality of life. This article directs attention to bed-ridden older persons from the standpoint of social problems and attending economic developments and population changes based on data from Japan, the United States (US), Sweden, and OECD countries. Compared to the US, there are more bed-ridden older people in Japan, and inadequate public resources for caring. Physicians, nurses, care workers and rehabilitation specialists per 1000 aged sixty-five years or over are 89.5 in Japan while 273.4 in Sweden. Japan has the fewest such health and welfare personnel among developed countries. Even with increases in such personnel through the New Gold Plan, future increases in the older population would off-set the effect and the problem of providing care for the older population remains. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980515405 A
Classmark	C8: I: L: IK: QM: QAD: 7DT: 72
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