It’s on the Kihon checklist, a self-reporting questionnaire widely used to assess frailty recently. Now among the findings of a study carried out by the Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation "TRI" with a team of researchers from Kurume University and Kobe University Hospital, A group which was led by Shinsuke Kojima and Yoji Nagai, is evidence that adverse responses to three cognition questions on the checklist correlates with an increase of up to 10 times the need for long-term care within three years.
In April 2018, there were as many as six million people in Japan needing long-term care (LTC) in health and welfare service provision. Of those, about 14% have dementia, and their care is described by Nagai as "the biggest social burden in Japan". Its cost is forecast to reach JPY 24.3 trillion by 2060. Early diagnosis of dementia, however, can lead to interventions that can delay decline. To look at early indicators of long-term care need, Kojima and Nagai with a team of researchers putting a code and gathered data from 182,099 people of 65 and over. All were from Kobe municipal office and had completed a Kihon checklist between 20. Then the researchers cross-checked this group with certification records from the Long-term Care Insurance system, introduced by the Japanese government in 2000 amid rising care costs. To receive support, an applicant’s condition is certified at the municipal level.
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