Home Helper Dispatch Business - Home Helper Dispatch Business

...Home help services, which visit elderly people's homes and take care of them in their daily lives, were already in place in Switzerland and the UK at the end of the 19th century, but by the beginning of the 20th century they had become common in other countries. In Japan, in the late 1950s, some local governments were the first in the country to start dispatching home helpers as part of their in-home elderly welfare services, and in 1962 they were made eligible for government subsidies under the name of the Elderly Home Helper Dispatch Service. This system was solidified with the enactment of the Elderly Welfare Law in 1963, and the initial income restrictions on who could receive help were gradually relaxed, and now even households that are not low-income can receive help by paying a reasonable share. ...

*Some of the terminology used in relation to the "Home Service Worker Dispatch Project" is listed below.

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…19世紀の末にはすでに，老人家庭を訪問し日常生活の世話をするホームヘルプ･サービスがスイスやイギリスにおいて実施されていたが，20世紀にはいって各国で一般化した。日本では，1950年代後半に，いくつかの自治体が全国にさきがけて，在宅老人福祉事業としてホームヘルパーの派遣を開始し，62年から老人家庭奉仕員派遣事業の名称で国庫補助の対象となった。この制度は63年の老人福祉法の制定とともに確固たるものとなり，派遣対象も，当初の所得制限は徐々に緩和され，現在では低所得世帯でなくても応分の負担で派遣を受けられることになっている。…

※「家庭奉仕員派遣事業」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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