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Licensing and training requirements for direct care workers in Japan
— what can the United States and Japan learn from each other? | | Author(s) | Yoshiko Yamada, Minobu Sekiya |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 15, no 4, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 113-129 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Care home staff ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Training [welfare work] ; United States of America ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Shortages of direct care workers have been of concern both in the United States and in Japan. This article compares issues surrounding long-term care provisions in the two countries, and introduces Japan's unique licensure and certificate system for direct care workers. Japan has established three levels of direct care worker certificates and a direct care licensure, which can be potentially used as a career ladder. Studies show that this system has resulted in different work conditions and benefits between the different levels, but has had a limited impact on hourly wage and task differentiation. Implications for the US are also discussed. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040308206 A |
| Classmark | QRM: Q3: QW: 7T: 7DT |
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