# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第百五十八条 (Article 158) - 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: 第百五十八条 (Article 158)（研究開発の推進） — address `art-158` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-158 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-158 - 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. --- ### 第百五十八条（研究開発の推進） — (Promotion of Research and Development) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-158 **第一項** 国は、高齢者保健事業及び第百二十五条第五項に規定する事業の健全かつ円滑な実施を確保するため、高齢者の心身の特性に応じた看護その他の医療、機能訓練等の研究開発並びに高齢者の日常生活上の便宜を図るための用具及び機能訓練のための用具のうち、疾病、負傷等により心身の機能が低下している者に使用させることを目的とするものの研究開発の推進に努めなければならない。 art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-158/par-1 In order to ensure the sound and smooth implementation of health services for the elderly and the services prescribed by the Article 125, paragraph (5), the national government must endeavor to promote research and development of nursing and other medical care, functional training, etc. according to the mental and physical characteristics of elderly persons, and research and development of equipment for facilitating elderly persons in their daily lives and equipment for functional training, which are intended for use by persons whose mental and physical functions have deteriorated due to illness or injury, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-158/par-1: 第百二十五条第五項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第五項 (Article 125, paragraph (5)), art-125/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-5 --- ## 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