• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.61-69
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• 2009

This study has been started in order to provide basic information for the planning of Korean elderly care facilities by analysing For-profit elderly homes of Japan. Japan is famous for her high elderly proportion and also her fast aging speed. Therefore, Japanese experiences of trials and errors related to the supply of elderly homes will be a good guideline for Korea which is undergoing the sharp increase in elderly population. Data have been mainly collected from the official statistics of Japan and Korea. The outcomes of this study are as follows. At first, the definition of For-profit elderly homes of Japan has been proposed clearly. Secondly, the trends of them related to supply and operational characteristics have been analysed. Thirdly, the size and utilization rate of them have been analysed. And finally, the physical characteristics of elderly residences in For-profit elderly homes of Japan have been discussed.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.55-64
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• 2010

The Japanese elderly welfare policy has focused on facility policy for the aged and preventive care service for healthy elderly people. This paper has conducted a comparative analysis on Geriatric Gealth Services Facility and Special Nursing Home for the Elderly. For this, each service function has been divided into six categories; daily life / nursing and caring / medical service / management / supply / miscellaneous. Then the change in real structure by category has been analyzed through a plan analysis on case facilities. In the Geriatric Health Services Facility, the biggest change was observed in 'livelihood' among six categories. In the Special Nursing Home for the Elderly, 'the nursing and care parts' and 'medical service part' are decreased since 1999. At that time, the facilities started to be individualized and divided into a unit. To pursue home-like care instead of unit care, there was a change in construction planning to help the aged with dementia live a self-sufficient life.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.36
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• pp.129-146
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• 1998

The substance of this study can be summarized as follows. In introduction, this paper traces the factors of the advent of social care insurance in Germany and Japan and Premises that it is necessary to study social care insurance. In Chapter II, this paper examines the new idea of the recent social security system in japan, centering on the limit of social security policy today, the increase in the number of the poor and the needy and securing financial resources for elder welfare. In Chapter III, this paper studies the process of materialization for the introduction of social care insurance by considering the process of making "Outline of the Bill of Social Care Insurance System" and the general frame of the system in this "Outline". In Chapter IV, this paper explains the facilities in charge and the system of them, the contents and methods of social care insurance, all the arrangements needed in the process of practice, and the like, in connection with all the arrangements for and practical problem of social care insurance which will take effect in earnest in April, 2000 in Japan.