Trends and Factors in Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System

Abstract

Explores the trends and factors in Japan's long-term care insurance system and its ten-year experience. Discusses the aging population of Japan; the development of the long-term care insurance system in Japan; long-term care expenditures in Japan; the effect of the new preventive policy on long-term care expenditures in Japan; measuring efficiency in special nursing homes in Japan--an application of the data envelopment analysis; institutional long-term care expenditures and the proximity to death in Japan; and future challenges in establishing a sustainable long-term care insurance system in Japan. Olivares-Tirado is with the Research and Development Department in the Superintendency of Health of the Chilean Government and the Department of Health Services Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tsukuba. Tamiya is with the Department of Health Services Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tsukuba. No index.