Home treatment support activities
If you take care of an elderly person at home, various municipal or other public services are available to you. The Health Insurance Society subsidizes expenses necessary to receive those services, as well as to purchase or lend nursing care equipment and supplies.
Details of activities
- Subsidies for purchasing or borrowing nursing care equipment and supplies
- Subsidies for expenses required to use short-stay or day care services
- Subsidies for expenses required to use home care or bathing services
- Loans for expenses required to prepare the necessary environment for in-home medical care
Scope of nursing care equipment
- Excretion-related: disposable urine collection containers, toilets, portable toilets, toilet seats
- Bathing-related: portable bathtubs, bathroom aids
- Bedding-related: beds, bedsore prevention mats
- Other: wheelchairs, walking aids
Examples of health and welfare services
Day care services (nursing care services that are available as a day trip)
Those services include training in daily activities, lifestyle guidance, pickup and drop-off, meals, bathing, health checks, and so forth. For bedridden elderly persons, regular rounds nursing-care services are available.
Short-stay (short-term stay at an elder care facility or other facilities)
This program allows an elderly person to be admitted to a short-stay elder care facility or other facilities when his/her caregiver becomes temporarily unable to take care of him/her due to an illness, attendance at a ceremonial event, vacation, travel, or other circumstances. The period of stay is generally seven days or shorter but may be extended for a few days in an unavoidable situation.
Home-visit nursing care guidance
Professional staff, such as a nurse, public health nurse, or physical therapist, will visit your home. They provide nursing care, nursing guidance, functional rehabilitation training, and other assistance.
Bathing services
A system that allows elderly persons who have difficulty bathing at home to take a bath by driving him/her to a facility and back home or using a mobile bathing vehicle.