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Predictors for Increasing Eligibility Level among Home Help Service Users in the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance System
Kamiya, Kuniyasu
Sasou, Kenji
Fujita, Makoto
Yamada, Sumio
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Copyright © 2013 Kuniyasu Kamiya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objectives. This cross-sectional study described the prevalence of possible risk factors for increasing eligibility level of long-term care insurance in home help service users who were certified as support level 1-2 or care level 1-2 in Japan. Methods. Data were collected from October 2011 to November 2011. Variables included eligibility level, grip strength, calf circumference (CC), functional limitations, body mass index, memory impairment, depression, social support, and nutrition status. Results. A total of 417 subjects (109 males and 308 females, mean age 83 years) were examined. There were 109 subjects with memory impairment. When divided by cut-off values, care level 2 was found to have higher prevalence of low grip strength, low CC, and depression. Conclusions. Some potentially modifiable factors such as muscle strength could be the risk factors for increasing eligibility level.
Hindawi
2013
eng
journal article
VoR
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/23868
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/21719
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/374130
2314-6133
BioMed Research International
2013
374130
374130
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/21719/files/BioMed_Research_International_2013.pdf
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