The Spatial Distribution of Nursing Homes for the Elderly in Japan

Sugiura, Shin'ichiro

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“…Factors behind this include the reduced development of residential nursing care facilities for elderly people in recent years as a result of the welfare reforms and increased difficulty in providing "social hospitalization. " 6 Particularly, it can be said that the capacity of residential nursing care facilities is insufficient in metropolitan areas because the acquisition of land for facility sites is difficult (Sugiura 2002a). Housing for elderly people such as paid nursing homes supplied by commercial companies has increased in metropolitan areas since 2000.…”

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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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Geographical Studies of Welfare Issues in Japan since the 1990s

Miyazawa

2013

Geog. Rev. Japan B

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Residential care in California: Spatial and temporal trends in facility development and care capacity

Frochen

Ailshire

Rodnyansky

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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Residential care and other forms of long-term care are increasing along with the older adult population, but not uniformly across space and time.• In certain locations, residential care capacity as measured in beds per older adults has decreased or experienced intermittent growth and decline. • The greatest densities of oldest old adults in the jurisdictions studied appear to have overlapped with at least small traces of the residential care industry in cartographic analyses.The development of residential care has not kept pace with the growth of the older population in many places. We merged the California Department of Social Services residential care for the elderly dataset with census place data to document the growth of facilities and beds per older adults in all of California and in its three largest cities. From 1996 to 2015, residential care steadily increased in California by the number of facilities and beds relative to older adults. However, due to a consistently increasing older adult population, the Cities of San Diego and San Jose experienced gradual and intermittent decline in capacity per older adults, respectively, even as they added many beds to their inventories from the sporadic development of large assisted living and continuing care retirement communities. Additionally, San Jose and Los Angeles exhibited the most overlap in densities of facility development and oldest old adults, with San Diego showing less intersection in cartographic analyses. Understanding facility development and care capacity trends can help local agencies and jurisdictions in the United States and other countries discern whether planning policies and other geographical and development factors appropriately encourage the development of residential care and other long-term care facilities.

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The Satisfaction with Leisure Activities, Facilities, and Services of Retirement-aged People Living in a Rural–Urban Fringe Community not far from Tokyo: An Examination of Ushiku City, Ibaraki Prefecture

Waldichuk

2009

Geog. Rev. Japan B

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The rural-urban fringe around large cities such as Tokyo contains commuter cities made up of an oldtimer population and an increasing number of newcomers, and the literature points out that there are attitude and value differences among these residents. This article therefore examines the different types of healthy, active seniors and how their satisfaction with leisure facilities, services, and activities varies. After outlining the concept of community satisfaction and ikigai (a life worth living) and examining the creation and maturation of bedroom communities in the rural-urban fringe of Japan, I describe the case study area of Ushiku City near Tokyo and its leisure opportunities for seniors. Then, I compare the satisfaction of leisure activities, facilities, and services among retirement-aged residents of Ushiku. This information was obtained by questionnaire in 1997 and through informal interviews in 1996 and 1997. Follow-up interviews with Ushiku City officials took place in 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2008. It was hypothesized that there would be attitude differences between newcomer and old-timer residents. There were, however, few differences between newcomers and old-timers. On the other hand, responses varied according to whether the participant was male or female, and whether the participant lived in a rural or an urban area of Ushiku. The rural-urban differences reflect Ushiku's large area which contains urbanized and rural landscapes. The findings suggest that gender differences and one's residential location are important determinants of community satisfaction and should be considered when planning leisure facilities and services for seniors in these rural-urban fringe commuter settlements. key words rural-urban fringe populations, aging society, community satisfaction, leisure Article The Association of Japanese Geographers

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The Spatial Distribution of Nursing Homes for the Elderly in Japan

Cited by 3 publications

References 3 publications

Geographical Studies of Welfare Issues in Japan since the 1990s

Geographical Studies of Welfare Issues in Japan since the 1990s

Residential care in California: Spatial and temporal trends in facility development and care capacity

The Satisfaction with Leisure Activities, Facilities, and Services of Retirement-aged People Living in a Rural–Urban Fringe Community not far from Tokyo: An Examination of Ushiku City, Ibaraki Prefecture

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