Comparative prospective study between Japan and Sweden: Life course for those who become eligible first time for using the long-term care services
Description: The study is aimed to compare Japanese and Swedish debutants who become eligible first time for using the long-term care services. Primary questions of interest concern the level of disability among these debutants and the LTC services they receive. Further, it is of interest to analyze how their disability level changes over time and how well this is reflected in the provision of services. Finally, it is of interest to discuss the dynamics and sustainability of elderly care systems of the two countries. For the analysis was used longitudinal administrative data from a Japanese municipality and data collected in the Swedish National Study on Ageing and Care. Dependency level among the debutants in both countries were comparable, but provided care services differed a great deal. Among survivors the average number of dependencies almost doubled in five years. In both countries provision of community care given dependency increased over time and institutional care was reduced.
Amount: ¥16,380,000
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Investigator: Noriko KURUBE
Institution: Nihon Fukushi University
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Funded outputs count: 0
Funder award ID: 17H02613
OpenAlex ID: G1374637294