During the last 20 years since the home-visit nursing
system was started, there have been many positive revisions
for home-visit nursing services with both medical
and long-term care insurance by each insurance policy
revision with the implementation of the fee-for-services
policy [1-4]. A focus has been placed on securing a sufficient
number of home-visit nursing agencies. As a result,
various types of home-visit nursing agencies have been
established to meet the needs of each region such as the
provision of terminal-stage cancer, psychiatric, or neurological
conditions. Currently the number of agencies has
reached 6,801 (as of April 2013) [5]