As the cost of long-term care continues to rise, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has announced a policy to make users pay for their own room in "shared rooms" such as long-term care health facilities for the elderly, which have been covered by long-term care insurance.
The room fee for a "shared room" at a nursing home is borne by the user at a special nursing home for the elderly, which is a place for the elderly to live, but in addition to long-term care health facilities for the elderly, which are mainly used for rehabilitation with the aim of returning to home,
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long-term care medical facilities are covered by long-term care insurance without co-paying.
As the cost of long-term care continues to rise, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has decided to pay for some long-term care health facilities for the elderly and "shared rooms" at long-term care medical centers, and presented it to an expert meeting held on the 4th.
In these facilities, there are many cases where elderly people stay in the facility for a long period of time and end their lives, and since it is actually a place of living, it has been pointed out that the cost burden is unfair to those who receive care at home.
Members who attended the meeting expressed opinions such as "It is unavoidable considering the consistency with people receiving care at home" and "There are facilities that are only separated by curtains, partitions, and furniture, and we should not charge for a room."
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will adjust the specific details of the amount of co-payment and the timing when it will start asking for the burden.