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Aged Society (aged + society)

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The Coming of an Aged Society in Taiwan: Issues and Policies

ASIAN SOCIAL WORK AND POLICY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010
Wan-I Lin
For most advanced industrialized countries, an aging society has been a national issue since the 1970s. However, Taiwan was not aware of this issue until 1993, the year when the old-age population reached 7.0%. As an aging nation under the definition of the United Nations, the Taiwanese government began to pay more attention to the aging population, and executed several policies in response to this demographic transition. First, this article examines Taiwan's demographic transition from an aging society to an aged society, and its impacts. Second, it demonstrates the responses of Taiwan to the coming of an aged society and explores crucial issues that Taiwanese society is facing. [source]

Achievements of the Koganei Study

GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2003
Hiroshi Shibata
The purpose of the present paper was to briefly review longitudinal interdisciplinary studies on aging and cross-sectional studies for investigating problems in the aged society that were carried out in Koganei city, a suburb of Tokyo between 1976 and 1991. The signifi-cance of the Koganei Study is emphasized from the viewpoint of pioneering gerontological reseach in Japan. [source]

Health-Care Policy for Korean Elderly

NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 3 2002
Young Hee Choi
Due to advances in medicine and economic development, the percentage of Korean elderly is increasing markedly. If preparation is not made for the coming aged society, there is a possibility that the development of the Korean nation will be hindered. The increase in the number of the elderly is increasing the social/national burden of providing medical care for the elderly. Meanwhile, with the trend toward the nuclear family, the increase of female participation in social activities, and the increase of elderly who live alone, it is difficult for nursing homes alone to solve the problem of providing support for the elderly. Long-term medical treatment and care of the elderly has become the responsibility of both the government and society. Under these conditions, the Korean policy for elderly patients can be classified broadly into home care, community care, and institutional care. In order to prepare for the aged society, deficient facilities need to be supplemented and home care and community care need to be expanded so as to increase the communities' ability to support the elderly . Homes, communities, government and the private sector should work together to provide integrated welfare and health care to the elderly. [source]

Quantifying Dementia Care in Japan: A Discussion on the Long-Term Care Insurance

PSYCHOGERIATRICS, Issue 2 2001
Shivani Nandi PhD
Abstract: The Japanese government mandated the kaigohoken, or Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI) in December 1997. In view of the pressures faced by Japan as an aged society, the aim of the LTCI is to alleviate the burden of providing care for frail older people by ensuring good quality and readily available services to everyone over 65. The LTCI is thus a high profile, age-based entitlement program,age based for persons 65 years of age and above, and age related disability based for ages 40 to 64. Individuals 40 years and above, including foreigners living in Japan for more than a year, are responsible in bearing a part of the financial responsibility by having to pay the mandatory premium. The benefits that the insured person receives are decided after evaluating the care requirement. Care is quantified by being categorized into six levels of increasing requirement, starting from support required, through five levels of increasing care. As is well known, caring for a person with dementia is further complicated by accompanying psychiatric disturbances which in turn increase caregiver burden. Thus the fundamental difficulty in dealing with the care of persons with dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia, is the evaluation procedure preceding entitlement. We find that the statistical program of the LTCI employed in the initial stage of the evaluation contains discrepancies, and tends to overemphasize bed ridden patients over people with dementia. This paper is a study of the status of people with dementia in Japan, the mechanism of the assessment method, and the problems associated with it. [source]

The Coming of an Aged Society in Taiwan: Issues and Policies

ASIAN SOCIAL WORK AND POLICY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010
Wan-I Lin
For most advanced industrialized countries, an aging society has been a national issue since the 1970s. However, Taiwan was not aware of this issue until 1993, the year when the old-age population reached 7.0%. As an aging nation under the definition of the United Nations, the Taiwanese government began to pay more attention to the aging population, and executed several policies in response to this demographic transition. First, this article examines Taiwan's demographic transition from an aging society to an aged society, and its impacts. Second, it demonstrates the responses of Taiwan to the coming of an aged society and explores crucial issues that Taiwanese society is facing. [source]