Long-term care-service use and increases in care-need level among home-based elderly people in a Japanese urban area

Health Policy

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 94-100

  Koike, Soichi ^a   Furui, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Home based care service; Long term care insurance; Quality and effect of care

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; JAPANESE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SEX; URBAN AREA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LONG-TERM CARE; JAPAN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84875253548     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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