This study is to look for improvement suggestion of Korea Long-Term Care Insurance for the Aged
through comparison with the similar Japan Care Insurance. firstly, this paper briefly examined Korea
Long-Term Care Insurance for the Aged and Japan Care...
This study is to look for improvement suggestion of Korea Long-Term Care Insurance for the Aged
through comparison with the similar Japan Care Insurance. firstly, this paper briefly examined Korea
Long-Term Care Insurance for the Aged and Japan Care Insurance, and then after a comparison of two
similar insurance for the aged, makes a research on improvement method of Korea Long-Term Care
Insurance for the Aged in future. In 2000, Korea entered the aging society and may become a super-aged
society in 2026 for rapid increase of the aged no more than 30 years. Therefore Long-Term Care
Insurance was enacted to response it. The insurance is for the aged after 65 yeard old and the geriatric
patients with 6 months illness and are hardly to live alone. The operating agency is National Health
Insurance Corporation. While in Japan, the care insurance is for all the aged after 65 years old in local
community. So on this service object, there seems to have a distance with Japan. Also about whether the
insurance applicant is identical with insurant, in Korea, National health insurant and applicant are the
same. But in Japan, it is divided into the 1st insurant and the 2nd insurant. In addition, benefits are
classified into home service, facility service and special cash wage in Korea. While in Japan, the
classification is much more detailed. Also, Korea focuses more on the after care service, while Japan does
much work on prevention service. Therefore, in terms of reducing care service demand and national
burden, in writer's opinion, it is necessary to make a research on benefits system that is focus on
prevention service in Korea.