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A new type of nursing home was institutionalized in 2002 in Japan and the direction of policy for nursing care in Japan became
the adoption of private rooms and small-group units care. The impelling force behind the adoption of this model is "Care town
Takanosu," which is modeled on a health care center for the elderly in Denmark.
Following a change of mayor and a merger of municipalities, the new administration requested a review of "Care-town
Takanosu" with the aim of improving welfare management. One result was that the staff ratio at "care-town Takanosu" was
reduced from 1.4 to 1 to 1.8 to 1. We examined the change of the standard of the care from the perspective of the users of the
facility and performed a chi-square test comparing the results for the years 2000 v 2003, 2003 v 2006 and 2000 v 2006. The
p-value of the test for 2003 v 2006 is slightly changed from that for 2000v 2003. However, there was no overall statistical
significant difference for test for 2000 v 2006. This means that the original high level of nursing care service has been maintained
by the efforts of the highly trained staff.