Seminar
Long Term Care Lessons from Japan - OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Prof Naoki Ikegami.
- Date:
- 01 Apr 04
- Outline
- In Japan, it is estimated that by the year 2020 almost 30 per cent of the population with be aged 65 and over. The ageing society has become Japan’s biggest policy issue. How will this section of the population with more and complex needs be cared for? How will such care be paid for?...
- Full Description
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To overcome these problems the Japanese have introduced Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI). The aim is to merge traditional boundaries between social services and health care, providing an integrated service to the elderly, which is funded out of one pool of public money openly “earmarked” for Long Term Care.
At this lunch time seminar Professor Naoki Ikegami presented and discussed the introduction of this system in Japan; the reasons for it, the processes involved, the difficulties and the impact of LTCI. This was followed by a discussion exploring what lessons there are, and how feasible it would be to introduce a similar system of long term care provision into the UK. Julien Forder, Assistant Director of the PSSRU, LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics then briefly discussed his thoughts on how LTC insurance might work in England within the English social care policy framework before inviting questions from the audience.