Welfare for the Elderly/ 高齢者福祉

Community General Support Section, Welfare for Long Life Division   

Phone: 048-930-7793

 The chief manager, public health nurses, and social workers will provide consultation regarding daily life and nursing care (Including consultation for people with dementia, consultation on elder abuse) so that the elderly can continue to live in their familiar communities.

Community General Support Section, Welfare for Long Life Division

Phone: 048-930-7793

 This course trains people who wish to be supporters in order to understand dementia correctly and watch over person with dementia and his/her family members with warm heart.

Contact: Nearby Community Comprehensive Support Centers

*Please inquire with Welfare for Long Life Division

 This team provides intensive support for people with dementia or suspected dementia living at home who are 40 years of age or older in principle. Specialists coordinate hospital visits, support the use of long-term care services, provide advices to family members and connect them to medical and long-term cares.

Community General Support Section, Welfare for Long Life Division

Phone: 048-930-7793

 This center provides information on house call doctors and care managers to those who wish to receive home medical care, as well as consultation about diseases and nursing care.

Hours: From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday through Friday)

Phone: 048-949-6119 (544 Yaguchi)

Services for Long Life Section, Welfare for Long Life Division  

Phone: 048-930-7788

 You need to make an application to receive any of these services.

 This service delivers lunch and dinner to elderly persons living alone who need to be watched over regularly and have difficulties securing meals on a daily basis and checks their safety at the same time (part of the cost to be borne by the user).

 Emergency call device is available for lending to elderly persons living alone. In the event of a sudden illness or other emergency, a call for help can be made 24 hours a day just by pushing the emergency button (part of the cost to be borne by the user).

A telephone instrument is available for lending to the elderly persons living alone needing a telephone for safety checks, emergency calls, etc. (with income restrictions).

 A barber visits the home twice a year to provide hairdressing and hair cutting services to those aged 65 years or older having difficulty going to a barber or beauty salon and who are categorized in the level 4 or 5 of the necessity of long-term care classification under the Long-Term Care Insurance Act.

 Disposable diapers will be delivered monthly (with a partial co-payment) to those aged 65 or over who need diapers because of constant incontinence who are classified as the level 3 to 5 in the necessity of long-term care classification, or who are classified as requiring nursing care or higher level under the Long-Term Care Insurance Act and certified as requiring full assistance for urination and defecation, and who are not receiving Public Assistance stipulated under the Public Assistance Act (part of the cost to be borne by the user).

 An allowance will be paid to a family member who cares at home a person aged 65 or over with a certification for the necessity of long-term care classification level 4 or 5 stipulated under the Long-term Care Act continuously for one year or longer, who has not used long-term care services for the past year, and has not been hospitalized for 3 months or longer.

 The fee for search system will be subsidized for families using the device to help finding their wandering elderly.

 Emergency medical information kits will be distributed to the elderly aged 65 or over etc. living alone to store information on their family doctors and daily medications in their refrigerators in the event of a sudden illness or other emergency.

 This program dispatches home caregivers to frail elderly persons aged 65 or over to provide light assistance in daily living (with user’s co-payment).

 Those elderly having anxieties about their daily lives and/or interpersonal relationships with neighbors can stay temporarily in a care-house in Misato City to improve their life style habits (with user’s co-payment).

 This program provides classes and places for the elderly to go for exercise, oral care, dementia prevention, etc. to prevent them from becoming in need of assistance or care and to maintain a healthy and independent life.

Services for Long Life Section, Welfare for Long Life Division    

Phone: 048-930-7788

 The City provides a longevity congratulatory money to those residents aged 77, 88, 99 and 100 years continuously living in Misato City for one year or more as of the base date of August 31.

 Subsidies will be provided to educational learning programs, sporting and social service activities conducted by each Rojin club.

 People aged 60 years old or over can use the facilities for free of charge. The facilities include bathrooms and recreational rooms and provide places to improve health, to enhance cultural interests, and to enjoy recreational activities. Each facility organizes a variety of events.

• Iwanoki Rojin-fukushi Center [senior welfare center]

Phone: 048-953-3500

• Hikosawa Rojin-fukushi Center [senior welfare center]

Phone: 048-953-5588

• Togasaki Rojin-fukushi Center [senior welfare center]

Phone: 048-956-8000

Community General Support Section, Welfare for Long Life Division  

Phone: 048-930-7793

 These are places where local residents casually stop by and interact. 

●Hot salon iki-iki 

 Phone: 048-950-7001 (Address: 3-7-9-1 Hikonari)

 Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Mon. through Fri.)

●4 Chome-no clover salon

Phone: 048-950-8208 (Address: 4-4-17-103 Hikonari)

Hours: 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Mon. through Fri.)

 This is a network with local cooperating business operators to search for a missing elderly and to secure his/her safety. A sticker with 2D Barcode will be distributed to those registered elderly.

Service for Long Life Section, Welfare for Long Life Division

Phone: 048-930-7732

 This program provides health exercise classes for those aged 60 or over to maintain mental and physical health. The classes are held approximately twice a month, 18 times a year. Each session takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes and offered at facilities throughout Misato City.

Misato-shi Silver Jinzai Center (Temporary Staff Agency for The Seniors)  

Phone: 048-952-0866

  In principle, anyone who are aged 60 or over, healthy, have work motivation and ability can enroll in the Silver Jinzai Center (an annual fee of 2,400 yen). Members work helping each other by using of their experiences, abilities and skills.

 The Silver Jinzai Center welcomes requests from private enterprises and households for the following types of work.

Those aged 65 or over

 Those aged 40 to under 65 years old and enrollee of health [medical care] insurance

Benefits Section, Long-term Care Insurance Division    

Phone: 048-930-7792

There are two ways to pay the premium:

 For those who receives pension benefit 180,000 yen or more in a year, the premium will be deducted from pension benefit. (Procedure is unnecessary.)

Pay by payment slip or bank transfer other than by special collection.

* You can pay the premium at convenience stores. The amount of Category 1 insured person will be determined by the City based on the Long-term Care Insurance plan.

 Pay the premium as a part of your health [medical] insurance payment you enrolled. The premium amounts may differ depending on your health [medical] insurance plan.

Approval of Long-term Care Section, Long-term Care Insurance Division 

Phone: 048-930-7791

 In order to use long-term care services, you need to apply for “Certification of needed long-term care” and receive the certification that you request for long-term care services and supports. Long-term Care Insurance Division at the City Hall or Comprehensive Community Support Centers will accept your application. There are approval categories, ‘needed support level 1or 2’, ‘needed long-term care level 1-5’, and ‘Not applicable’.

Benefits Section, Long-term Care Insurance Division

Phone: 048-930-7792

 If a person with necessity of long-term care or necessity of assistance wishes to use the services of long-term care (long-term care prevention), you need to create a long-term care (long-term care prevention) service usage plan. Therefore, please consult with your community comprehensive support center or home long-term care support business provider near your home.

• Kaigo rojin fukushi shisetsu, or Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly (senior welfare facility of those who need long-term care)

• Chiiki mitchakugata kaigo rojin fukshi sisetsu nyushosha seikatsu kaigo, or Community-Based Facility for Preventive Daily Long-Term Care of the Elderly Covered by Public Aid (community-based special nursing home for seniors)

• Kaigo rojin hoken shisetsu, or Long-Term Care Health Facility (senior health facilities) 

 When you use long-term care services, you need to pay 10%, 20% or 30% of co-payment of the serve charges. However, if the expenses for the service used, fees for meals, accommodation (room charges), and other expenses charged by the admitted facility exceed the user’s ceiling amount defined by the degrees of necessity of long-term care, the excess amount must be borne by you.

For those with low income, there is a system to reduce the fees for meals and accommodation of the admitted facility. If your monthly charges exceed the ceiling amount (maximum amount) which is designated based on user’s incomes, the excess amount will be paid as the high cost long-term care service expenses upon application.

*Application accepted for two years’ charges.

Approval of Long-term Care Section, Long-term Care Insurance Division 

Phone: 048-930-7791

 When you need to be cared for, apply for an approval of necessity of long-term care/ necessity of assistance; and then use the long-term care (long-term care prevention) services.