Community study of the integration of health care, medical care and social welfare systems for the elderly. Fundamental analysis of the aging of population in Shimane prefecture, Japan.
10.2185/jjrm.35.867
- VernacularTitle:コミュニティにおける高令者の保健・医療福祉システムの総合化に関する研究 島根県における人口老令化現象の基礎的分析
- Author:
Kenji ABE
;
Tetsuhito FUKUSHIMA
;
Yoneatsu OSAKI
;
Akio NAKAGAWA
;
Nobuo YOSHIDA
;
Yosuke YAMANE
;
Eisaku TANIGUCHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1987;35(5):867-874
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
In order to develop the health care system for the elderly we need to analyse fundamentally the phenomenon that the average age of population in each community is rapidly becoming older, as well as we have to grasp life conditions and health needs of old people. We investigated the rate of increase or decrease of population, rate of the elderly living by themselves and the index of the aging of population of each community, classified these communities into several types, and presented the points necessary to develop a community-based comprehensive health care for the elderly as to each type by considering the meanings the indices of health care, medical care and social welfare of the communities disclose.
