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Increased care-need in older long-term care insurance users after the 2018 Japan Floods: a retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims
| العنوان: | Increased care-need in older long-term care insurance users after the 2018 Japan Floods: a retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims |
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| المؤلفون: | Kotaro Ikeda, Shuhei Yoshida, Yuji Okazaki, Daisuke Miyamori, Saori Kashima, Shinya Ishii, Soichi Koike, Keishi Kanno, Masanori Ito, Masatoshi Matsumoto |
| المصدر: | Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, Vol 28, Pp 31-31 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | Komiyama Printing Co. Ltd, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | long-term care insurance, activities of daily living, natural disasters, the 2018 japan floods, rural health services, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background: Level of care-need (LOC) is an indicator of elderly person’s disability level and is officially used to determine the care services provided in Japan’s long-term care insurance (LTCI) system. The 2018 Japan Floods, which struck western Japan in July 2018, were the country’s second largest water disaster. This study determined the extent to which the disaster affected the LOC of victims and compared it with that of non-victims. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study, based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims from two months before (May 2018) to five months after the disaster (December 2018) in Hiroshima, Okayama, and Ehime prefectures, which were the most severely damaged areas in the country. A code indicating victim status, certified by a residential municipality, was used to distinguish between victims and non-victims. Those aged 64 years or younger, those who had the most severe LOC before the disaster, and those whose LOC increased even before the disaster were excluded. The primary endpoint was the augmentation of pre-disaster LOC after the disaster, which was evaluated using the survival time analysis. Age, gender, and type of care service were used as covariates. Results: Of the total 193,723 participants, 1,407 (0.7%) were certified disaster victims. Five months after the disaster, 135 (9.6%) of victims and 14,817 (7.7%) of non-victims experienced the rise of LOC. The victim group was significantly more likely to experience an augmentation of LOC than the non-victim group (adjusted hazard ratio 1.24; 95% confidence interval 1.06–1.45). Conclusions: Older people who were affected by the disaster needed more care than before and the degree of care-need increase was substantially more than non-victims. The result suggests that natural disasters generate more demand for care services among the older people, and incur more resources and cost for society than before. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1342-078X 1347-4715 |
| Relation: | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ehpm/28/0/28_22-00269/_html/-char/en; https://doaj.org/toc/1342-078X; https://doaj.org/toc/1347-4715 |
| DOI: | 10.1265/ehpm.22-00269 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/7bc98a23fc284f128ac90384356a94d8 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.7bc98a23fc284f128ac90384356a94d8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1342078X 13474715 |
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| DOI: | 10.1265/ehpm.22-00269 |