Long-Term Care Insurance Act

The term "Specified Facility" as used in this Act means a registered Fee-Based Home for the Elderly prescribed in Article 29-18, paragraph (5) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly (hereinafter referred to as a "registered Fee-Based Home for the Elderly") or other facility as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that is not a Community-Based Specified Facility prescribed in paragraph (20), and the term "daily life long-term care for a person admitted to a Specified Facility" means care for bathing, bodily waste elimination, meals, etc., and other care for performing daily activities as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, functional training, and medical care, that is provided to a Person Requiring Long-Term Care who resides in a Specified Facility, based on a plan that sets out the content of the services provided by said Specified Facility, the personnel in charge of them, and other matters as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The term "Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Specified Facility" as used in this Act means to provide, to a Person Requiring Long-Term Care who is staying in a registered Fee-Based Home for the Elderly or other facility specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (11) the residents of which are limited to Persons Requiring Long-Term Care, their spouses, and other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as a "Specialized Long-Term Care Specified Facility") and which has a resident capacity of twenty-nine (29) or less (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "Community-Based Specified Facility"), care for bathing, bodily waste elimination, meals, etc., and for other daily activities as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, functional training and medical care, based on a plan that stipulates the content of services to be provided by that Community-Based Specified Facility, the personnel in charge of the services, and other items as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

a Fee-Based Home for the Elderly other than a Fee-Based Home for the Elderly that is a Specified Facility (excluding a home whose residents are limited to a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, said person's spouse, and other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and whose capacity of the fixed number of residents is twenty-nine (29) or less).

when notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 2929-35, paragraph (183) and Article 29-36, paragraph (4) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly pertaining to a Designated Community-Based Service Provider has been received;

the total capacity of residents of each of the Fee-Based Homes for the Elderly for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly, registered fee-based homes for the elderly, and the registered housing prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (5) of the Act on Securement of Stable Supply of Elderly Persons' Housing (Act No. 26 of 2001) (referred to as "registered housing" in paragraph (5), item (i), and paragraph (3), item (vii) of the following Article), in each area referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph (limited to that pertaining to those that have not received the designation under the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1), the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1), or the main clause of Article 53, paragraph (1) as a Business Office conducting the business of daily life long-term care for a person admitted to a Specified Facility, Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Specified Facility, or Daily Preventive Long-Term Care Admitted to a Specified Facility; the same applies in paragraph (5), item (i), and paragraph (3), item (vii) of the following Article);

the total capacity of residents of each of the Fee-Based Homes for the Elderly for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly and registered fee-based homes for the elderly, and the registered housing, in each area referred to in paragraph (2), item (i);

total capacity of residents of each of the Fee-Based Homes for the Elderly for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly, the registered fee-based homes for the elderly, and the registered housing, in each area referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph.