Totsuka Ward Action Plan for Establishing Yokohama Community Care System

　In order to build a comprehensive community care system by 2025, the ward office, ward Japan National Council of Social Welfare, Community Care Plaza and related organizations aim to understand and share the direction of the community-based comprehensive care system in the area. In March 2018, we formulated the "Totsuka Ward Action Guidelines for Construction of Yokohama-type Community-based Comprehensive Care System".
　In March 2021, with the formulation of the "8th Yokohama City Elderly Health and Welfare Plan, The Long-term Care Insurance Business Plan, and Dementia Measures Promotion Plan", the contents of the ward action guidelines were reviewed, and the contents were revised to "Totsuka Ward Action Plan for Construction of Yokohama-type Community-based Comprehensive Care System" and revised its contents.

　By 2025, when the baby boomers are 75 years of age or older, it is expected that the number of certified persons requiring long-term care and elderly people with dementia will increase further. In addition, there are concerns about a shortage of human resources for medical and nursing care workers and a surge in social security expenditures, addressing these issues has become an urgent issue.
Under these circumstances, Totsuka Ward is promoting the community development (building a comprehensive community care system) that provides seamless care, medical care, nursing care prevention, life support and housing.

　Depending on the condition of the elderly, it is necessary for local related organizations and inhabitants of the ward to understand their roles and cooperate in response, and promoting the creation of such a system is a "comprehensive community care system" Will be built.
　Totsuka Ward is focusing on the following:

• "Prevention of nursing care": Efforts to maintain and improve mental and physical health so that you can stay energetically forever
• "Life support": Initiatives to support people who have problems in daily life
• "Home medical care and nursing care cooperation": Efforts to support when medical care and nursing care are needed
• "Efforts for dementia": Initiatives to support people with dementia and their families
• "Protecting the rights of the elderly": Efforts to protect the rights of elderly people whose judgment ability has decreased

• Totsuka Ward Action Plan (revised in March 2022) (PDF: 6,086KB) (PDF: 6,086KB)
• Totsuka Ward Action Guidelines (established in March 2018) for construction of Yokohama-based comprehensive community care system (PDF: 3,843KB)