Japan Nursing Home Case Study

OFFERING HIGH WAGES AND MORE FACILITIES FOR ENCOURAGEING FOREIGN NURSES TO WORK IN NURSING CARE FACILITIES-

The monthly average salary of workers in elderly care was 234,000 yen in 2013, compared with 324,000 yen across all industries in Japan. The shortage of nursing care facilities and homes are much more in the six following prefectures, including the greater Tokyo area, Osaka and Aichi that are home to companies such as Panasonic Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. Tokyo alone will have to be burden by 743,000 numbers of old people over the age of 75, and will have 1.98 million old people above that age by 2025, according to the reports of health ministry of Japan’s surveys. Tokyo nursing homes are particularly struggle to raise wages because government

Japan opened its medical care labour market for nurses and caregivers from Indonesia and the Philippines as part of trade agreements in 2008, and also did the same arrangement with the Vietnam after 2009 also. But because of falling birth rate the young and productive workers number had been downwards for a long time, which affected the active nurse’s number. Still Japan is strict on the policy importing foreign nurses from outside of Japan. According to Japanese health ministry’s history Japan’s first modern nursing care facilities created in 1885, after that throughout all these time, it’s been a core structure of Japanese medical system. In the nursing care facilities the certified nurses are more than capable of speeding the skill to other non-certified nurses who are working in many local and private facilities. On the other hand home visits by nurses to elderly people are becoming much more efficient than before. In this way the elderly who can’t come down to hospital or other facilities are getting proper benefit from this policy. But it’s a factor the lower number of nurses is became a problem.

Chronic kidney disease is one of the common chronic diseases in Japan. These situations are very similar with every patients in Japan, Nursing facilities are in many cases having problem , how to determined problems and solution for the elderly people or the others who comes to nursing care for the health and living support. In these following studies I bound to venture the structure of the process of the treating diseases bound elderly based on these particular diseases as example and theoretically describe the nursing care situation in Japan in everyday life and even with home nursing care. Because with long waitlisted situation in many nursing care facilities many elderly citizens are bound to having their family member to give them care what they needed. For a brief description based on this example, patients with chronic kidney disease suffer from decreased function of kidneys to filter out wastes and excess fluid from their bodies; hence this condition cannot be cured but can be managed by proper care. When these illness progress into end stage renal disease, patients are forced to choose from one of these following three options