Mass evacuation and increases in long-term care benefits: Lessons from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Though mass evacuation may increase the need for long-term care (LTC) services, how the need for LTC services increases and how the public LTC system affects it is not well understood. We evaluated changes in public LTC benefits for the people living in the mandatory evacuation areas established after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and examined the roles of the universal LTC insurance system in Japan. METHODS:In order to evaluate the effect of the mandatory evacuation on LTC benefits, we examined the trends of LTC benefits in the Fukushima evacuation group and the nationwide non-evacuation group. We first decomposed per-elderly-individual benefits at the municipality level into the LTC certification rate and per-certified-individual benefits, and then implemented difference

SUBMITTER: Morita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760790 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature