Tag - nursing

 
 

NURSING

EDITORIALS
Feb 18, 2015
Nursing care compensation plan
The government should consider overhauling the nursing care insurance system to ensure stable services for the elderly and to rationalize the system's overall operation.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2015
Government earmarks funds to deal with caregiver shortage
A crisis in nursing care is brewing. The government estimates that the nation will be short of 300,000 professional caregivers by 2025, when postwar baby boomers will be 75 or older and many will need regular care.
EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 2015
Risky nursing care cutbacks
The government should carefully monitor the nursing care industry to ensure that budgetary cutbacks do not reduce quality of their services.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2014
Shortage of nursing care workers
With the nation's population rapidly graying, the government must take steps to boost the number of nursing care workers.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2014
Improving dementia care
The government must make greater efforts to to enable people with dementia to live as normally as possible for as long as possible.
EDITORIALS
Sep 28, 2014
Nursing care worker shortage
Japan's population is graying rapidly even as a large number of nursing care workers quit their jobs every year, leaving nursing care facilities in dire need of staffing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2014
Kewpie adapts its menu to feed a graying nation
Back in 1960, Kewpie Corp. began selling canned baby food, sensing a chance to catch a wave of young families raising kids in an economy roaring back to growth after the devastation of World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 8, 2014
Center in Tokai helps foreigners
A new group has been established in the Tokai region to help foreign residents get educational, medical and welfare services in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jul 14, 2014
Rising costs of nursing care
Changes to the nursing care insurance system make the delivery of some services for people with less severe medical conditions the responsibility of municipalities, while raising the out-of-pocket share that some care recipients must pay.
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2014
Social welfare is not for profit
A deregulation panel for the Abe administration has called on the health ministry to let private businesses run nursing care homes even though the operation of these homes is not supposed to be for profit.
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2014
A need for special nursing homes
The number of elderly people suffering from senile dementia and other conditions that require critical nursing care is rising, yet Japan faces a serious shortage of facilities that can provide such care.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2014
Chronic fatigue plagues nursing staff nationwide
Over 70 percent of nursing staff suffer from chronic fatigue, and 75.2 percent thought about quitting their job, according to a nationwide survey of workers in the nursing field.

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