The Expansion of Municipal Authority and Regional Influence Resulting from Long-term Care Insurance System Reform: The Case of Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hatakeyama, Teruo

doi:10.4200/jjhg.61.5_409

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“…The recognition of regional inequality in service delivery as a problem has allowed municipal governments to control the entry of nursing care providers into community-based services. Hatakeyama (2009Hatakeyama ( , 2012 nevertheless found weak control of local governments attributable to the dependence of the amount of community-based services on the participation of service providers, and reported the creation of regional disparities. Hatakeyama (2011) additionally uncovered regional inequality in the community general support centers, which had begun to be established by local governments simultaneously with community-based services, as a result of difficulties in funding of local governments.…”

Section: Elderly Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographical Studies of Welfare Issues in Japan since the 1990s

Miyazawa

2013

Geog. Rev. Japan B

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Fertility decline and population aging are progressing rapidly in Japan. To develop an appropriate welfare system to accommodate this aging society, coupled with low fertility, welfare reform has been implemented in Japan since around 2000. Demographic and political changes have stimulated Japanese geographers to study welfare-related issues. Since the latter half of the 1990s, many reports in the literature of Japanese geographical circles have described welfare issues. This article is intended to introduce geographical studies that have specifically examined welfare issues in Japan. There are three themes of the studies: 1) provision of welfare services, especially elderly care services and childcare services; 2) community reorganization to cope with an aging society; and 3) housing problems of vulnerable groups, including single elderly people, female-headed households, and homeless people. This article presents a review of existing geographical studies of each theme, and presents some themes for additional study.

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Section: Elderly Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%