The study of the Long Term Care Insurance by the questionnaire method for the caretakers

診療所併設型老人デイケア利用者の介護者に対して，介護保険についてのアンケート調査を行った．その結果デイケア利用者の介護者はほとんどが女性であり，介護者自身が高齢である者や介護が長期化している者も少なくなかった．また多くの介護者は現在の介護に不安を感じていた．一方，介護保険については，いまだ導入についてさえも知らない者が少なからず存在しており，知っていた者でも期待していると答えた者は半数にも満たなかった．さらに保険料については多くの者が負担が大きいと回答しており，1割の自己負担化等によりサービスの利用を控えると回答した者も多く見られた． これらのことより，介護保険は特に低所得者に対して厳しいものになると思われ，利用の適正化以上にサービスの抑制にならないような対策が必要と考えられた．With a questionnaire. We asked the caretakers of a persons, using day care service in a clinic, about the Long Term Care Insurance. We found that : Almost all of the caretakers were women. Many of them were old, and had cared a person for long term, and were anxious about their charges. Quite a few of them hadn't known about the beginning of the Long Term Care Insurance. And many of them felt the burden of the insurance due. There were the caretakers who would modulate their use of the servicies, because they will have to bear the 10％ expense and so on. These results show that the Long Term Care Insurance must be severe with some poor persons, so we have to take measures, to prevent reduction of the use of services so the use of services fits the needs of people