Increased care-need in older long-term care insurance users after the 2018 Japan Floods: a retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims

Increased care-need in older long-term care insurance users after the 2018 Japan Floods: a retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims

Background: Level of care-need (LOC) is an indicator of elderly person’s disability level and is officially used to determine the care services provided in Japan’s long-term care insurance (LTCI) system. The 2018 Japan Floods, which struck western Japan in July 2018, were the country’s second larges...

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Main Authors: Kotaro Ikeda, Shuhei Yoshida, Yuji Okazaki, Daisuke Miyamori, Saori Kashima, Shinya Ishii, Soichi Koike, Keishi Kanno, Masanori Ito, Masatoshi Matsumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Komiyama Printing Co. Ltd 2023-05-01
Series:Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Subjects:
long-term care insurance
activities of daily living
natural disasters
the 2018 japan floods
rural health services
Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ehpm/28/0/28_22-00269/_html/-char/en

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