Long-term Care Utilization Discrepancy Among the Elderly in Former Evacuation Areas, Fukushima.
Yurie KobashiTomohiro MoritaAkihiko OzakiToyoaki SawanoNobuaki MoriyamaNaomi ItoMasaharu TsubokuraPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2021)
Elderly returnees had fewer LTC needs than elderly evacuees. Nevertheless, the proportion of aging people is high in evacuation area, meaning the number of elderly returnees would increase at an enormous rate. Therefore, LTC utilization rate would increase in the future.