# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号 - English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-1 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（目的） — (Purpose) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、国民の高齢期における適切な医療の確保を図るため、医療費の適正化を推進するための計画の作成及び保険者による健康診査等の実施に関する措置を講ずるとともに、高齢者の医療について、国民の共同連帯の理念等に基づき、前期高齢者に係る保険者間の費用負担の調整、後期高齢者に対する適切な医療の給付等を行うために必要な制度を設け、もつて国民保健の向上及び高齢者の福祉の増進を図ることを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-1/par-1 The purpose of this Act is to formulate a plan for promoting the optimization of medical expenses and to take measures for the implementation of health checkups, etc. by insurers in order to ensure appropriate medical care for the citizens in their old age, and with regard to medical care for the elderly, to establish a system necessary for adjusting the sharing of expenses between insurers pertaining to the young-old and for providing appropriate medical care benefits, etc. for the old-old, based on the principle of joint and several action by citizens, thereby improving the health of the citizens and promoting the welfare of the elderly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三条第一項（国の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-3/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十九条第一項（機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-139/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百三十九条第二項（機構の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-139/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-139/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19