• 보건행정학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.258-271
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• 2022

The rapidly aging trend of Korea is a major factor that threatens the sustainability of the long-term care insurance system. Therefore, looking at how Japan and Germany mitigated the financial burden when they managed similar long-term care insurance systems will provide important implications for improving the Korean system in the future. The study was conducted using the literature review method, and the "country" was set as a unit for the case analysis. The three countries selected are Korea, Japan, and Germany. Recently in Korea, the insurance premium rates of all subjects have been rapidly rising, which can exacerbate the issue of intergenerational equity. On the other hand, Japan has responded to the aggravating finances for long-term care insurance due to aging by raising coinsurance for selected groups like the wealthy elderly. Germany is selectively raising the insurance premium rates by additionally increasing the premium rate for childless recipients. A more preventive and quality-oriented care service plan can be promoted by referring to the recent changes in Japan and Germany. In addition, a more effective and selective increase in payment burden in Japan and Germany could be considered in response to a recent equity issue in Korea.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.94-105
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• 2022

Background: As South Korea enters an aged society, the government has emphasized the need for a soft landing of the older adults into the community after the acute and recovery periods under a national policy of "community care." However, the institutionalization of community rehabilitation services to implement this is insufficient. Japan had already entered an aged society when the Long-Term Care Insurance System was introduced in 2000. Thus, the case of Japan's institutionalization of the system is expected to have implications for us in supplementing a suitable system for the aged society. Objects: This study compared the institutionalization process of the Long-Term Care Insurance System in South Korea and Japan and the services currently being implemented in each country. Methods: To examine the institutionalization process and services of the system, related legal rules and regulations, government reports, and articles were reviewed. To examine the operation status of the system, statistical data provided by each country's government were analyzed. Results: Japan recognized the importance of community rehabilitation even before the enactment of Long-Term Care Insurance. Thus, community rehabilitation services, such as home-visit rehabilitation and health facilities, were already stipulated in the law. Under such institutional legacy, Long-Term Care Insurance was able to establish a service system, which balanced welfare and health-related services, including various types of services with enhanced rehabilitation functions. In South Korea, rehabilitation policies were not much considered in the process of institutionalizing the system; thus, it was composed mainly of services focusing on care and recuperation. Conclusion: In order to realize community care, rehabilitation services need to be developed in Long-Term Care Insurance System in various forms such as home-visit services, daily services, short stay, and facility services.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2007

Purpose: A national long-term care system for elderly and the disabled has its unique evolution in each country. Japan, Germany and the United States may be the typical examples of respective social insurance system. This paper reviews the counterpart examples of Japan, Germany and the United States and looks at their accumulated long-term care system experiences and personal care system under workers' compensation. Methods: Literature review and website searching were conducted. Key words as 'workers' compensation insurance', 'personal care benefit' and 'long term care' were used in searching the related literatures. Results: Though the personal care benefit under current Workers'Compensation in Korea is very similar to Japan's, the long-term care system of Korea is not as well established. Germany and the United States have the provision of personal care benefit for injured workers within long term care system. Conclusions: We recommend some key issues to take into account for improving personal care benefit system in workers' compensation in Korea as follows: providing a comprehensive coverage through the linkage of long term care, introducing an assessment & evaluation system for the appropriate benefits, establishing insurer's role for quality management of personal care service, and developing a policy for family caregivers.

• 한국노년학
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2019

최근, 보건복지부가 커뮤니티케어 구축에의 필요성을 강조하면서 보건의료-요양-사회복지계의 뜨거운 관심이 이어지고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 향후 노인대상의 커뮤니티모델을 구축함에 있어서 노인장기요양보험이 어떠한 미래적 비전을 갖고 재검토되어야 하는지를 살펴보기 위해 국책사업으로 지역포괄케어시스템(aging in place) 구축을 추진하고 있는 일본의 정책추진사례를 심층적으로 분석해 보는 것은 그 의미가 있다고 볼 수 있으며 본 연구는 일본의 개호보험제도 개정과정을 문헌검토를 통해 심층적으로 분석하였다. 일본의 지역포괄 케어시스템 구축을 위한 개호보험제도 운영현황과 개정과정을 살펴본 결과, 향후 우리의 경우 1)커뮤니티케어시스템 구축의 기본적인 원리를 보다 명확히 할 필요가 있고 2)노인장기요양보험의 재가서비스 확충, 3)거주유형의 다양화 및 고도화 작업 추진, 4)케어매니지먼트체계 구축, 5)당사자와 가족지원 확대 등의 정책추진이 보다 적극적으로 이뤄져야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.224-233
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• 2022

Purpose: In Japan, the Long-Term Care Insurance Act has stipulated visiting rehabilitation since 2000. This study aimed to identify the actual conditions of visiting rehabilitation in Japan through a literature review of reports published by the Japanese government. Methods: This literature review was conducted on eight articles among various government reports on the topic of the actual conditions of visiting rehabilitation. These reports were published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan based on their own investigations or reports from an external agency entrusted with the task, and were issued between 2000 and 2021. Results: The characteristics of the visiting rehabilitation offices, their number, manpower allocation, the number of users, and their visits to each office were identified. Also, the characteristics of the users, number of users, age and required degree of long-term care, causative disease, and required medical care were identified. To evaluate the actual status of the visiting rehabilitation service, the service use time, frequency, period of use, intervention by doctors and the degree of such intervention, therapist's service content, visitors' address before the use of the service, reason, and timing of the service introduction, evaluation of the service effectiveness, combination of services and transfer destination after termination, and status after service termination were checked. Conclusion: Based on the Japanese experience where visiting rehabilitation was introduced and applied to long-term care insurance, it would be meaningful to review the factors that required benchmarking among the Japanese service models while designing a similar model in Korea.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.211-225
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• 2010

Purpose: This comparative study analyzed information systems including manpower, contents of service, clients, and costs among four nations. Methods: A literature review of relevant publications from Korea, United States, Japan, and Germany supported the use of several plans to activate home nursing care services under the long-term care insurance system in Korea. Results: Korean home nursing care services require quality improvements. The results indicated that a rule is necessary that rations simple visiting service and home nursing care services under the long-term care insurance system, that an integrated management system for elderly care is required, and that the revised delivery of services needs to establish and reflect on various factors to estimate the value in a home visiting nursing care cost system. Conclusion: The data should be valuable in establishment of home nursing care services under the long-term insurance system in Korea.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2006

The demand for long-term care is continuously on the rise as number of elders among the population increases. Due to the rapid growing demand for long-term care in Korea, there have been discussions for the introduction of new long-term care system into Korean society. The purpose of this study in to analyze changes of elderly care facilities in Japan after the beginning of long-term care system in 2000. The functional and architectural changes of Japanese facilities were researched to be used as references for predicting changes in Korean facilities. In Japan, after the execution of long term care system, the alterative aspect of facilities is divided into some categories; in sum, the change of environment for long term care, the effort to spread specialized facilities in a whole community, and the tendency to complex a variety of function of facilities such as an facility for home care service, and the like.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.31-58
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• 2006

일본은 1990년 이후 사회복지제도를 개혁하는 과정에서 이용자본위의 서비스지원, 자기결정에 따른 서비스이용, 자립생활을 지원하는 서비스 등을 새로운 개혁이념으로 제시하면서, 이를 실천하는 제도적 장치의 하나로써 서비스에 대안 이용지원제도를 제시하였으며, 개호보험제도의 개호지원전문원이 당해 역할을 담당하게 되었다. 따라서 개호지원전문원의 도입은 사회복지서비스의 이용과정의 따른 패러다임의 변화를 가져왔다. 즉, 조치제도에 따른 서비스이용의 타율성과 서비스의 이용과정의 복잡성을 고려할 때, 개호지원전문원이라는 단일창구를 통한 서비스의 종합적 상담 지원 그리고 시장기능에 따라서 움직이는 개호지원전문원의 역할을 고려할 때, 요원조고령자의 서비스 선택폭은 크게 확대 강화되었다. 한편, 개호지원전문원제도는 구조적 취약점도 지니고 있다. 즉, 개호지원사업자(소)를 중심으로 한 개호지원기능 개호지원사업자와 서비스사업자간의 병행 운영, 개호지원전문원의 업무내용과 범위의 모호, 개호지원전문원의 겸무허용에 따른 업무과다, 처리역량을 벗어난 사례담당에 따른 어려움, 사회적 지원제도의 부족, 역할과 신분을 초과하는 의무와 처벌 등이 이에 해당된다. 한편, 일본의 개호보험제도와 비슷한 노인수발보장제도와 평가관리원의 도입을 추진하고 있는 한국의 입장에서 보면 이와 같은 개호지원전문원제도의 구조와 특징은 많은 시사점을 줄 수 있을 것으로 본다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.80-89
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• 2022

Purpose: In Japan, the long-term care insurance and health insurance acts have stipulated the visiting rehabilitation system to provide support at the national level. The prior case of Japan would provide guidelines for seeking a suitable policy direction in South Korea. This study aims to examine the historical transition process of the visiting rehabilitation system in Japan, and the issues that emerged in the process of the institutionalization of this system. Methods: To examine the historical transition process of the system, the regulations announced by the government and their reports were reviewed. The relevant issues were qualitatively analyzed based on the opinions of scholars, therapists, and interested organizations that were reported in published papers on the topic. Result: The visiting rehabilitation system has been implemented in the following chronological order: The Health and Medical Service Act for the aged (1982-2006), the Health Insurance Act (1988-), and the Long-term Care Insurance Act (2000-). Currently, visiting rehabilitation is provided through hospitals, clinics, visiting nursing stations, etc. The following issues came to the fore in the process of the institutionalization of the system: (1) the complexity of the system, (2) the necessity of changing perceptions into a life model approach, (3) insufficient service provision by therapists, (4) the lack of human resources and an education system, (5) the lack of awareness of care managers and doctors about visiting rehabilitation, and (6) the necessity of quality enhancement through a team approach. Conclusion: It is deemed worthwhile to refer to the visiting rehabilitation system in Japan and the issues that emerged in the process of institutionalizing the system while seeking a policy direction for a similar system in South Korea.

• 한국보건간호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국보건간호학회 2004년도 제1회 지역사회간호, 보건간호, 가정간호, 연합학술대회
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• pp.79-90
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• 2004