With the shortage of nursing care workers due to the aging of helpers, etc., the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has a policy to create a new type of service that can integrally provide home-visit nursing care and outpatient nursing care, which are positioned as separate businesses. We decided to proceed with a detailed review.
Demand for nursing care services is expected to increase in the run-up to 2040, when all baby boomers will be over 65 years old.
Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has established a policy to create a new service type that can integrally provide multiple home care services such as home-visit care and outpatient care, which are operated as separate businesses, and reported at a meeting of experts on the 5th. Did.
The aim is to provide services efficiently according to the actual situation of the region, and currently there is a service called "small-scale multi-functional home nursing care" that provides home-visit nursing along with day services and lodging. We plan to increase the number of types of “composite services” that we offer.
Next year, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will proceed with specific considerations at a meeting of experts.