| 英文摘要 |
The Long-term Care Insurance Law (LtCIL) in Japan that created in 1997 was the beginning structure for the Japan's social welfare revolution in 21 century. Since April 2000 the long-term care insurance has been enforced over a decade. According to LtCIL, the users have to go through the following procedures to get the long term care service, First, it has to decide the qualification of applicants by the standardization of the need-assessment process for long-term care. Secondly, what the long-term care service could the user get is depended on the contract negotiation which is between service provider and user. The contract could not be paid over the maximum payment by the law. Both of the procedures have been standardized and they become one of characteristics of LtCIL. There are more detailed rules for the recognized process for the need-assessment. The need-assessment process for applying the long-term care that includes the authorized organizations to submit, to process and to confirm, respectively. According to LtCIL there is required 2 stages to determine the eligibility and the level of need for long-term care and the decision for the need-assessment has limited coverage for the insured payment. This article will illustrate concisely the system's revolution after LtCIL has been established. After stated the whole picture of the current law system, the focus will be on standardization of the needassessment process for long-term care. Hopefully, not only could this article provide our country to practice future long-term care service system but also as a reference for continuous research. |
