Japan's elderly care model and its characteristics

Japan's elderly care model and its characteristics are as follows:

1. Diversified medical and nursing care model with a focus on the home: Japan's traditional concept of elderly care focuses on home care, but with the changes in the social structure, the elderly care model has shifted to a combination of the home, the community, and institutions. The rapid development of community-based home care services, providing 24-hour check-in, day-care services or home services, including nursing, medical care, health care, entertainment and other services. There is a wide variety of commercial nursing homes, which are categorized as health, residential, and nursing care according to the needs of the elderly, all of which are covered by nursing care insurance.

2. Medical outsourcing to improve specialization: Nursing homes in Japan usually do not have hospitals, but rather outsource medical facilities to hospitals to operate and manage them, in order to improve the efficiency of specialization in both nursing and medical care. Nursing homes provide long-term care, rehabilitation training and simple first aid services, and treatment of serious diseases requires cooperation with neighboring hospitals.

3. Elderly Facilities and Elderly System: Elderly facilities are divided into three categories: nursing homes set up by local governments and welfare organizations, care-and-attention fee-paying nursing homes developed by corporations, and senior apartments. The pension system includes the public **** pension system, the enterprise supplementary pension and the personal savings pension system, and the public **** pension system is mandatory for full coverage.

4. Nursing care insurance system: Japan has implemented the nursing care insurance system since 2000, except for low-income people, nationals over 40 years of age are mandatory to join. The insurance system covers 90% of the cost of certified nursing care and 10% of the cost for the individual, and is designed to protect the nursing care needs of the elderly in their later years.

5. Modernization of facilities and equipment and professional nursing services: Japan's nursing institutions have modern facilities and equipment, and elderly caregivers are professionally trained and qualified by exams to provide high-level professional nursing services.