TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Legislative Response to Ill-treatment of the Aged and Problems of Long-term Care Policy
JO  - Review of legal and political sciences
A1  - Wakino, Kotaro
SP  - 119
EP  - 135
VL  - 47
IS  - 2
N2  - This paper deals with legislative response to ill-treatment of the aged and problems of long-term care policy. The act which deals with ill-treatment of the aged in Japan is the "Act on Prevention of Ill-treatment of the Aged and Support to Carers of the Aged". As its name shows, a characteristic of this act is to provide not only response to ill-treatment of the aged but support to carers. There is no precedent of legislation similar to this in other countries. This paper, at first, confirms a definition of ill-treatment of the aged in this act, and then, points out legislative response to ill-treatment of the aged and its problems. Finally, this paper examines the relation between ill-treatment of the aged and long-term care policy in Japan and presents some problems of the policy.<p /> 
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SN  - 0386-5266
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -