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The Care for the Aged Person and the Inheritance 〜Focus on the care work provided by "yo-me"〜

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13837007
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field ジェンダー
Research InstitutionNIIGATA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TAKAHASHI Keiko  NIIGATA UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Associate Professor, 教育人間科学部, 助教授 (50311668)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TSUNOO Atsuko  SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (00180034)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywordscare for the aged person / inheritance / contribution / inter-generational programs / local currency / economic evaluation / questionnaire / interview / 家族介護 / 嫁 / アンケート / 地域通過 / 介護 / 高齢者
Research Abstract

The care of aged people has been a very important issue for Japanese society these days. Though the Family-care Law was enacted in 2000, the burden of caring for aged people concentrate on women as it used to be, especially for the heir's spouses, "yo-me". The longer the period is and the heavier the burden is, the in-house care-work is still left unpaid. How we can decentralize / evaluate the care-work?
Under the awareness of the issues, we analyzed this theme from three different approaches, which are economics, legal and social.
As for the economic approach, to evaluate care-work, we conducted a questionnaire on middle-aged people in Nagano Prefecture. Most of them think that it is surely that the care for the elderly is a considerable burden and unfair, and their unpaid care work is equal to the regular employers' wages, but at the same time, they do not desire to evaluate their care-work economically. Among farming families, a new rule effective for only family persons, Family Management Agreement, has been introduced and has tried to decentralize/evaluate the married women's care work.
By legal approach, we referred to the judicial precedent about the contribution "kiyo-bun"(Article 904-2,in Civil Law), which was added in 1980. The process of this article's enactment is highly suggestive and actually, this article has been used for judicial decision in the evaluation of in house-care-work, but that article is fundamentally effective for a legal heir, this article leaves many other problems to be solved.
And by social approach, we have had direct interviews with people who use local currencies such as COMO in Tokyo Prefecture, PEANUT in Chiba Prefecture, and DASUKE in Niigata Prefecture, and surveyed several inter-generational programs. We found that in many areas, to live more comfortably in every day life, they try to re-generate and re-structure the community power using these currencies and programs.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 高橋桂子: "大卒夫婦の高齢期生活経済"新潟大学教育人間科学部紀要. 第6巻 第1号. 85-94 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keiko TAKAHASHI, Atsuko.TSUNOO: "Local Currency ; Useful Tool for Re-engaging and Re-vitalizing the Community"Journal of Home Economics. Vol54 No8. 643-648 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 日本家政学会家庭経済学部会 関東地区会編: "少子高齢社会と生活経済"建帛社. 208 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takahashi, Keiko: "Home Economics after Retirement ; A Case Study for Graduated Couples"Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. Vol.6 No.1. 85-94 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takahashi, Keiko, Atsuko, Tsunoo: "The Japan Society of Home Economics Division of Family and Consumer Sciences The Kanto-Chiku Area"Local Currency ; Useful Tool for Re-engaging and Re-vitalizing the Community, Journal of Home Economics, The Aging society and Lifestage Economics(Kenpaku-sya). Vol.54 No.8. 643-648 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高橋桂子: "大卒夫婦の高齢期生活経済"新潟大学教育人間科学部紀要. 第6巻第1号. 85-94 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Keiko Takahashi, Kusano., T.Atsuko: "Local "Currency" : A Useful Tool for Reengaging and Revitalizing the Community"Journal of Home Economics of Japan. (発売予定).

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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