A Survey of Employees' Perception on the Service Network of Concentrated Arrangement of the Health, Medical and Welfare Facilities for Elderly in Japan - Focused on Miyagi-ken Nango-cho and Yamagata-ken Nishigawa-cho in Tohoku area of Japan -

농촌지역 고령자 보건∙의료∙복지 집약시설내 서비스연계에 대한 직원의 의식조사 - 일본 동북지방의 궁성현(宮城県) 남향정(南鄕町)과 산형현(山形県) 서천정(西川町)을 대상으로 -

Recently, Rural village of japan are enlarging and enriching the service of health, medical and welfare facilities for the elderly. Concentrated arrangement of the three types of facilities is one of the effective ways especially for the small-scale local governments. This paper focus on a questionnaire survey of employees who work in the facilities to evaluate service network. Using this survey data, it is used to make a plan of intensive arrangement. As a result, their satisfaction with concentrated arrangement was considerable high. In particular, they expressed satisfaction with service network between Medical and Welfare. Due to increasing outpatients, the concentrated arrangement has contributed to hospital funds and given emotional security to the aged in welfare facilities. In order to promote service network effect, there are many opinions that management of health facilities(local governments) is needed.