Community study on the integration of medical care, health care and social welfare in the rural district of Japan. Experiment and evaluation of a comprehensive health care, "the Service Package System for the Bedridden Elderly".
10.2185/jjrm.35.830
- VernacularTitle:コミュニティにおける保健・医療・福祉の総合化に関する研究 ねたきり老人健康管理「サービス・パケッジ方式」の試みと評価
- Author:
Tetsuhito FUKUSHIMA
;
Yoneatsu OSAKI
;
Kenji ABE
;
Akio NAKAGAWA
;
Hisako TSUCHIYA
;
Eisaku TANIGUCHI
;
Yosuke YAMANE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1986;35(4):830-838
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
The rise of the average age of the population in Shimane Prefecture has become more and more conspicuous in these years. According to the estimation of the future population the aging phenome-non in Shimane Prefecture is going about fifteen years ahead of the average of Japan. Therefore it is significant to perform a community experiment of the comprehensive health care for the elderly in this prefecture, in the sense that its results will offer many useful experiences to other districts of Japan, where the aging of the population is proceeding a little more slowly.
We carried out an experiment called “the Service Package System for the Bedridden Elderly”, in Sada-cho, Shimane Prefecture in cooperation with Sada-cho, Izumo Health Center and Izumo Medical Association. It is an improvement on the health care system for the bedridden elderly and their family, which has been performed in Scandinavian countries.
The results of our experiment obviously showed the existence of many problems stemming from the lack of integration among different fields such as health care, medical care, social welfare, working and cultural life. To establish the comprehensivehealth service system for the elderly and their family the integration of these fields is most urgently demanded.
