Ⅴ．Consideration

①Why community building is needed from the perspective of medical care, nursing care and welfare

• When there are social problems which include ageing society with low birthrate, population decline, and reducing of social security expenses, there are issues that cannot be resolved by medical care or nursing care alone.
• As it has become difficult to support the living of the residents only with formal services such as medical care and nursing care, we consider it important to build a system of cooperation with various informal services including resident organizations (volunteers) and NPOs.
• A paradigm shift is taking place in Japan’s medical policies, from “medicine that cures” to “medicine that cures and supports.”
• With the diversification of individual values, it becomes necessary to gather information on what is needed for an individual’s life. To that end, it should be important to understand the regional resources surrounding the individual.