Nursing home More than 350 business closures and transfers "Problems in management skills" specialist October 3, 18:47
NHK's interview shows that the number of facilities that have been reported to the local government in the last year in the “residential pay nursing home” has been reported to the local government as a result of the aging of society and the demand for nursing care facilities has increased. It was. Cases where management has become stuck due to entry from different industries are conspicuous, and experts point out that it is necessary to support management skills.
Unlike residential facilities such as special elderly nursing homes, “residential pay nursing homes” are private nursing homes that can be established with relatively simple equipment, and are rapidly increasing throughout the country due to their ability to move in at low rates.
NHK interviewed 125 local governments such as prefectures and ordinance-designated cities nationwide about this facility, and last year there was a facility that submitted a “decommissioning notice” such as business closure or business transfer to the local government for reasons such as difficulty in continuing business. I found that there were 355 cases.
In some cases, the degree of nursing care is high and elderly people who receive welfare protection are accepted too much, making it unprofitable, or cases where they give up management due to lack of nursing expertise due to entry from different industries was.
As a facility, in addition to the occupancy fee, the day service fee that is provided along with the operation of the facility and the care fee provided by the country, etc. can be relied on to establish the operation, but the use of the service is less than the initial expectation In other words, there are many cases in which the expectation of nursing care rewards that require complicated calculations is incorrect, making it unprofitable.
Associate professor Tatsuaki Takano of Toyo University, who is studying nursing care policy, said, “It is a very big problem when you stand in the position of each resident. It is necessary to do. "