The report argued that in order to maintain the continuity
of a senior’s daily life, community care resources
management needed to be restructured. On the basis
of the report, the Long-Term Care Insurance Committee
of the Social Security Council published ‘Opinion
on Revision of the Long-Term Care Insurance System’
in 2004, which proposed the establishment of a ‘community
general support center’, under the responsibility
of local municipalities (the insurers of long-term care
insurance system), to provide comprehensive care
management in the community [13].