Increased care-need in older long-term care insurance users after the 2018 Japan Floods: a retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese long-term care insurance claims

• Main Authors: Kotaro Ikeda (Author), Shuhei Yoshida (Author), Yuji Okazaki (Author), Daisuke Miyamori (Author), Saori Kashima (Author), Shinya Ishii (Author), Soichi Koike (Author), Keishi Kanno (Author), Masanori Ito (Author), Masatoshi Matsumoto (Author)
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• Published: Komiyama Printing Co. Ltd, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Level of care-need (LOC) is an indicator of elderly person's disability level and is officially used to determine the care services provided in Japan's long-term care insurance (LTCI) system. The 2018 Japan Floods, which struck western Japan in July 2018, were the country'...