home-visit nursing is expected to play a major role in
linking medical support and daily-life support.
Home-visit nursing agencies first opened in 1992,
mainly for home-bound elderly. The Japanese government
started promoting home-visit nursing services in medical
insurance since 1994 and in long-term care insurance
since 2000 [1]. Today, home-visit nursing services are covered
mainly by long-term care insurance (approximately
75%); the remaining is covered by medical insurance [2]