Nursing home dilemma

The illness as well as welfare method is pulling the devise to increase the number of "single-unit rooms" in nursing home facilities for the elderly. Such bedrooms are placed around the common space so which aged people can maintain relationships with others while enjoying privacy in their rooms. The method additionally hopes which greater opportunities to mingle with others will forestall aged people from becoming bedridden.Unfortunately, since the monthly fee for the singular room is expensive, many low-income people living in such bedrooms end up moving out. In particular, those whose annual grant income is above 800,000 though below 2.11 million tend to empty single-unit rooms, although they embrace an additional monthly 10,000 contribution from the open nursing caring insurance system if they live in singular rooms. Those with lower annual grant income who live in such bedrooms embrace an additional contribution of 35,000. In 2008, singular bedrooms accounted for only about 20 percent of the bedrooms in homes for aged people requiring special caring (tokuyo). The corresponding rate was less than 5 percent in illness centers for the elderly, which provide rehabilitation training as well as daily caring services. The cost to set up singular bedrooms is higher than building shared rooms, as well as more caring workers are required to demeanour after their occupants. The fact which insurance system payments for caring work in singular bedrooms differs little from those for caring work in shared bedrooms serves as the disincentive for nursing home operators to set up more single-unit rooms. In this situation, the method has asked the row of the Social Welfare Council to study the proposal of asking the little residents of shared bedrooms in tokuyo as well as other nursing homes, whose annual grant income is 2.11 million or more, to bear the additional burden of paying the little 8,000 the month. The additional amount would be used to subsidize the higher costs shouldered by the single-room residents whose annual grant income is above 800,000 though below 2.11 million. The method explains which the proposal is necessary since the financial burden of shared room users is light compared with singular room users. But the ministry's approach is based on the idea of raising the rents of shared-room residents who reap no benefit from the unit singular bedrooms as well as who may find it difficult to pay an additional 8,000 the month. The method should go back to the drawing board as well as come up with the fairer solution.

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