Totsuka Ward Action Plan for the Construction of a Comprehensive Community Care System

　In order to build a comprehensive community care system by 2025, the ward office, the Japan National Council of Social Welfare, community care plazas and related organizations established the Totsuka Ward Action Guidelines for the Establishment of a comprehensive community care system in the area in March 2018.
　In March 2021, along 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 specific initiatives and target values were included, the name was changed to "Totsuka Ward Action Plan for the Construction of a Yokohama-type comprehensive community care system" and the content was revised.

　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 the shortage of human resources for medical and nursing care workers and the rapid increase in social security expenditures, and addressing these issues is an urgent issue.
Under these circumstances, Totsuka Ward is promoting the community development (comprehensive community care system) that provides uninterrupted “care, medical care, care prevention, life support and housing” so that elderly people can continue to live in their own area.

　Depending on the condition of the elderly, it is necessary for local related organizations and inhabitants of a ward to understand their roles and cooperate, and to promote the creation of such a system, 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": Efforts to support people who have problems in daily life
• "Home medical care / nursing care cooperation": Efforts to support when medical care or nursing becomes necessary
• "Efforts for dementia": Efforts to support people with dementia and their families
• "Advocacy of the rights of the elderly": Efforts to protect the rights of the elderly, etc., whose judgment ability has declined

• Totsuka Ward Action Plan (revised in March 2022) for the construction of a Yokohama-type comprehensive community care system (PDF: 6,086KB)
• Totsuka Ward Action Guidelines for Construction of Yokohama-type Community-Based Comprehensive Care System (established in March 2018) (PDF: 3,843KB)