Under the healthcare system in Japan, professional homehelpers(housekeepers) were for many years employed by homehelper agencies as so-called “nursing attendants” who supplemented the work of hospital nurses or provided care to patients in the place of family members (the nursing attendant system).
Since the abolition of the nursing attendant system in 1994 through a revision to the Health Insurance Law, there has been a transformation of professional home-helpers into caregivers
who predominantly help patients with daily life activities.
Besides professional home-helpers, those who have a national license, called “care workers”, are engaged in the caregiving
system in Japan