ArticleGeriatrics & gerontology international2022
Change in long-term care service usage in Japan following the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey using a nationwide statistical summary in 2018-2021.
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aimSocial restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic forced many long-term care (LTC) service-users to refrain from using services. We aimed to evaluate the degree of change in the use of LTC services.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed data from the publicly distributed nationwide statistics summarizing the monthly number of public LTC insurance users in Japan between April 2018 and March 2021. The degree of decline was quantified as a ratio, where the ratio of a certain month to the reference month was divided by the ratio in the previous year.
resultsThe use of LTC services started to decline in March 2020 and reached its largest decline in May 2020. Thereafter, it recovered but insufficiently, even as of late 2020. The degree of decline was particularly large for services provided in facilities for community-dwelling elderly individuals [Ratio to the previous year = 0.717 (95% CI: 0.645-0.796) in short-stay services, and Ratio = 0.876 (95% CI: 0.802-0.957) in outpatient services], but was non-significant in other types of services, including those provided for elderly individuals living in nursing homes.
conclusionsCommunity-dwelling elderly individuals who had used outpatient or short-stay services were especially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This underlines the need for further investigation of the medium- or long-term influence of the decline in service usage on the mental and physical health of the LTC service-users and their caregivers. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2022; 22: 803-809.
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