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With the introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Japan, more home care services are available for the community-dwelling elderly. To deliver effective home care services, it is important to know the effects of service use. In this study, as the first step to determine this, we sought to describe different home service use in the sustained/improved group and deteriorated group in their care needs levels, and to report the relationship between the use of home care services and changes in care needs levels.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Health Services Research, Doctoral Program in Human Care Science, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. goheik@saitama-med.ac.jp
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