Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan: Focusing on Spatial Structures and Local Governance

Hatakeyama, Teruo; Nakamura, Tsutomu; Miyazawa, Hitoshi

doi:10.4157/ejgeo.13.486

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“…Part of the complexity in achieving the necessary public awareness stems from the fact that, on the supply-side, CbICS require significant local coordination and collaboration for a variety of services 5 , 6 , with a corresponding need for the education of professional staff 7 and novel approaches to inter-service management 8 . Notably, because health and care services involve elements that have different service catchment areas, such as hospitals, day-care facilities and meal home-delivery services, achieving integration, such as the necessary governance and delivery mechanisms, necessarily implicates different geographic scales 9 . Further, local differences matter , such as the feasibility of home visits in sparsely populated areas and fostering community engagement in urban areas 10 .…”

Section: The Need For Care Literacy In Community-based Integrated Car...mentioning

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‘Care literacy’ in super aging Japan

Costantini¹,

Nihei²,

Ueno³

2021

Open Res Europe

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Accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the change in Japan to community-based health and care services for older adults indicates an urgent need to enhance and spread citizens’ understanding of care. This is a broader notion of care that incorporates conditions within the community to support the inclusion of older adults, involving not only those older adults receiving care and their direct providers of care, but also others in the community who are involved in the daily lives of these older adults. To underpin such a broader notion of care across citizens, this paper proposes ‘care literacy’ as a novel analytical concept, defined as the knowledge and capabilities that enable people in need of care to live their daily lives in the community and facilitate potential health and care solutions. Reflecting the interconnection of health and care and rooted in the local context, care literacy underpins aging by enabling this involvement of the broader community, and is disseminated through media and grassroot activities.

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