title: Japan's Gold Plan emphasizes home care and the consumer.
abstract: Japan's population is increasingly weighted to the elderly. The health care system to date has relied on long institutional stays for their care, but a new plan--the Golden Plan--focuses on the importance of care at home, and care that the elderly desire.
authors.affiliation: National Association for Home Care, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kolanowski
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003710:Demography; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D010358:Patient Participation; D018855:Single-Payer System; D012943:Social Security