# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)
- 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
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- Provision: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4031-89/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第四条
suppl-4031-89/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-4
**第一項** 政府は、病院又は診療所において行われる付添看護その他の看護に関し、老人がその心身の特性に応じこれらの看護とその他の医療を一体的な管理の下に適切に受けることができるよう、必要な施策の推進に努めるものとする。
suppl-4031-89/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4031-89/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4031-89/art-4/par-1
The government is to strive to promote necessary measures concerning attendant nursing care and other nursing care provided at hospitals or clinics so that the elderly can appropriately receive such nursing care and other medical care under integrated management in accordance with their physical and mental characteristics.
machine translation, not official
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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T105826-010, translated 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