Short-stay service which is needed for maintain home care: Estimation of cost containment for care

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870084
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies; Medical sociology
• Research Institution: National Institute of Public Health (2015); University of Tsukuba (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Moriyama Yoko 国立保健医療科学院, 医療・福祉サービス研究部, 主任研究官 (10642457)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ショートステイ / 緊急ショートステイ / 在宅介護 / 在宅介護期間 / 介護費用 / 介護レセプトデータ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

1.We estimated the cost containment for care, when it was able to avoid institutionalization because of using urgent short stay timely. The result suggested a possibility for cost containment which equivalent to about 10 percent of the nursing cost for 1 month in the city concerned. 2. We revealed that using a short-stay service related to delay of institutionalization in the low-care needs group, and to earlier institutionalization in the high-care needs group from analyzing ling-term care insurance claims data in one prefecture. 3. We created the web calendar to inform empty beds to the care managers on a trial basis taking our studies opportunity. Our study completed the good case in which our study worked on fields and community and we created the new system by industry-academia-government collaboration.

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