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Long-Term Care Insurance Services - YAML

Long-term care insurance services are public care services provided to elderly people and others who have been certified as requiring long-term care, based on the Long-Term Care Insurance Act enacted in 2000. These include various services such as home-visit services (home help, home-visit bathing care, home-visit nursing, etc.), day-care services (day service, day care, etc.), short-stay services, and welfare equipment loans. Benefit limits are set according to the user's care level, and services can be used with a 10% co-payment in principle. In 2025, revisions were made including the expansion of eligible welfare equipment and relaxation of requirements for additional payments for home-visit services.

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- code: "01"
  slug: "home-help"
  name: "Home Help (Home Care)"
  description: "A service where helpers visit homes to provide physical care (meals, toileting, bathing) and household assistance."
  category: "Home-Visit Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "02"
  slug: "home-visit-bathing-care"
  name: "Home-Visit Bathing Care"
  description: "A service where a mobile bathing vehicle visits homes to provide bathing assistance in a dedicated bathtub."
  category: "Home-Visit Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "03"
  slug: "home-visit-nursing"
  name: "Home-Visit Nursing"
  description: "A service where nurses and public health nurses visit homes to provide medical care and treatment assistance."
  category: "Home-Visit Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "04"
  slug: "home-visit-rehabilitation"
  name: "Home-Visit Rehabilitation"
  description: "A service where physical therapists and occupational therapists visit homes to provide rehabilitation."
  category: "Home-Visit Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "05"
  slug: "day-service"
  name: "Day Service (Day Care)"
  description: "A service where users visit facilities with 19 or more capacity to receive bathing, meals, functional training, and recreation on a day-trip basis."
  category: "Day-Care Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "06"
  slug: "day-care-rehabilitation"
  name: "Day Care Rehabilitation"
  description: "A service where users receive rehabilitation-centered services provided by medical institutions on a day-trip basis."
  category: "Day-Care Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "07"
  slug: "short-stay"
  name: "Short-Stay Care"
  description: "A service where users stay at special nursing homes for the elderly for a short period (about one week) to receive daily living care."
  category: "Short-Stay Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "08"
  slug: "welfare-equipment-loan"
  name: "Welfare Equipment Loan"
  description: "A service that loans welfare equipment such as wheelchairs, special beds, walkers, and transfer lifts."
  category: "Welfare Equipment Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "09"
  slug: "specific-welfare-equipment-sales"
  name: "Specific Welfare Equipment Sales"
  description: "A service that provides purchase subsidies for equipment unsuitable for loan, such as raised toilet seats and bathing aids."
  category: "Welfare Equipment Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"
- code: "10"
  slug: "home-modification"
  name: "Home Modification Subsidy"
  description: "A service that provides subsidies for home modification costs such as handrail installation and eliminating level differences."
  category: "Other Services"
  targetLevel:
    - "要介護1"
    - "要介護2"
    - "要介護3"
    - "要介護4"
    - "要介護5"