Kaoruen Special Nursing Home for the Elderly
Who can use this service
The facility is for people aged 65 or older who require constant nursing care (level 3 or higher, or level 1 or 2 but qualify for special admission) and who have difficulty living at home due to illness or disability.
The admissions committee's decision on admission order is influenced by factors such as the situation of other people on the waiting list and the number of people leaving the facility, as well as room adjustments and timing based on gender, and the balance of users. Therefore, admission order is truly decided on a case-by-case basis. You won't know until you apply.
VISION
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Special nursing care can be made more accessible and comfortable!
Special care can be made more familiar and more comfortable!
While making the most of the facility's functions, we would like each user (client) to live in a “space like your own home”, taking into consideration each user's lifestyle and privacy. If it is a home, family members and guests will visit, and it is important to have a relationship with the local community. Anyway, we want to create an environment that is easy to enter, like a convenience store, and make this space safer and more comfortable, a “tea room” where there is natural interaction with the community. At the same time, it is a must-mission to introduce next-generation nursing care equipment that will help improve the nursing care environment by reducing the physical burden on the employees, the caregivers, and improving their work efficiency.
Kaoruen Special Nursing Home for the Elderly
Facility Manager Masanori Nagata
SERVICE
Our core focus is on "independent living support care."
The importance of "hydration, nutrition, natural bowel movements, and exercise" for users
By providing targeted services and improving the environment, we aim to improve the quality of life.
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This also has the advantage of being an infection prevention measure.
Each floor has its own service so that users can live independently.
We have a fixed number of familiar care staff members.
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Dental hygienists are also available
In terms of user care, we have also added a team of specialists to provide as much support as possible in terms of medical care, food, and housing.
BASE SYSTEM
1. "Water (Moisture)"
When humans can properly consume the necessary amount of water daily, many problems can be resolved. The physiological impact of water on the human body is very significant. However, as people age and become less mobile, many tend to avoid drinking water due to concerns about excretion. Therefore, we offer a variety of drinks to suit different preferences and needs, such as “hot drinks” like coffee, black tea, cocoa, sencha, bancha, kombucha, etc.; “cold drinks” like milk, sports drinks, iced coffee, bancha, etc.; and “edible drinks” like fruit jelly, agar jelly, yogurt, tea jelly, etc. We encourage individuals to drink 100-200 ml of water at each meal or snack, totaling 1500 ml per day. For example, cold milk or water when waking up, bancha tea before and at breakfast, water when taking medication, and favorite drinks or jellies around 10:00 a.m.
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2. Food
If you can get the nutrition you need for the day, you can solve many problems, so you need to be careful not to cause malnutrition. One person who had trouble swallowing and was being served blended food ended up picking up the sushi from the person next to him at an event. Before you even think about it, if you were served something mushy and confusing like porridge in front of you and sushi next to you, most people would want to eat sushi. That's why I think it's important to stop blending food and be able to eat normal meals. At Kaoru En, we have dental hygienists on staff who adjust dentures for chewing, provide oral care, and coordinate with dentists so that everyone can eat normal meals.
3. Letter from the Stomach
The cause of the need for diapers is fecal incontinence. The abuse of laxatives, the increasing severity of nursing care, the progression of dementia, and various other reasons can cause fecal incontinence and necessitate the use of diapers. However, diapers are an emergency measure, and the place of elimination should be the toilet. For this reason, we promote the use of sitting on the toilet to defecate. For healthy defecation, we believe that “sufficient fluids,” “regular diet,” and “reasonable exercise” are important. Therefore, we try to help patients have a natural bowel movement by avoiding the use of laxatives, eating a regular diet that contains water, dietary fiber, and beneficial bacteria, and standing, walking, and exercising to keep the intestines active.
4. Exercise
When considering the lifestyle of our users, we believe that walking is the main way to go to the toilet, eat, and take a bath. Walking brings about various positive reactions. For this reason, we support walking every day through power rehabilitation and outdoor walks for those who can walk, and walking aids for those who cannot. Power rehabilitation involves light-load machine training to move unused muscles in various parts of the body. This leads to improved mobility and physical strength, such as "I can now walk briskly," and improved psychological activity, such as "I can now go outside." The impact of power rehabilitation on the heart is lighter than "bathing," and there is almost no risk associated with exercise.
5. Bathing
At Kaoru En, we are promoting comfortable bathing. When bathing in a special bathtub called a mechanical bath, the residents sometimes grabbed and scratched the staff. At the time, this was considered problematic behavior as they refused to bathe, but if you put yourself in the residents' shoes, you'll realize that when you're tied to a simple bed called a stretcher and set in a machine that makes noise, the water is coming at you. This is no different from a car wash and is far from being called a bath. For this reason, we changed the bathtub to one made of cypress so that the residents can recognize it as a bath. The caregivers receive training from an instructor and enter the bathtub while supporting the residents in clothes that they don’t mind getting wet. By doing this, they are not just having their bodies washed, but are instead enjoying a bath that soothes the soul and is loved by Japanese people.
Quick reference chart for special nursing home fees
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Conventional Private Room
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Conventional Multi-bed Room
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Conventional private room
*Price list for one month (30 days)
Nursing care level
Basic unit + each addition
10% copayment
20% copayment
30% copayment
Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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Level 4
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Level 5
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[Services not covered by insurance]
区分
第一段階
第二段階
第三段階①
第三段階②
第四段階
食費（日）
300円
390円
650円
1,360円
1,445円
居住費（日）
320円
480円
880円
880円
1,231円
食費・居住費合計（日）
620円
870円
1,530円
2,240円
2,676円
月額（30日）
18,600円
26,100円
45,900円
67,200円
80,280円
User charge stages
Phase 1
・All members of the household are exempt from municipal tax and receive an old-age welfare pension.
・Those who are under public assistance and whose savings are less than 10 million yen for a single person (20 million yen for a married couple).
Second Phase
・All members of the household are exempt from municipal tax, and the total of the individual's taxable and non-taxable pension income is 800,000 yen or less per year, and savings, etc. are 10 million yen or less for a single person (20 million yen for a married couple).
Phase 3
Phase 4
・All members of the household are exempt from municipal tax, do not fall under the second level of user charges, and have savings of 10 million yen or less for a single person (20 million yen for a married couple).
・Those who are subject to municipal tax (including those who are exempt from municipal tax but have someone in their household who is subject to municipal tax)
Additions to the service system to be covered by long-term care insurance benefits
Initial addition (within 30 days from the date of admission)
This is calculated during this period, as the residents need various types of assistance in order to adjust to life in the facility.
Additional fee for safety measures (one time only on the first day of admission)
This is an additional payment that recognizes nursing care facilities that take strengthened measures to prevent accidents involving users.
Additional charge for enhanced nutrition care management (daily unit)
This is an additional charge that can be calculated by businesses that provide nutritional management for their users.
Additional daily unit for individual functional training I
This is an additional fee that can be calculated by establishments that plan and execute functional training for each user and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the training.
Additional charge for nursing system I (b), II (b) (per day)
This is an additional fee to evaluate nursing care facilities that have a sufficient number of nurses. If the facility cooperates with nursing staff and has a system in place to be contacted 24 hours a day, this fee can be calculated together.
Night shift staff allocation supplement I (day basis)
This is an additional payment that recognizes businesses that maintain safety by deploying more caregivers and nurses than the night-time staffing standard.
Additional fee for service provision system II (per day)
This is a surcharge that recognizes businesses that increase the deployment of care staff and provide higher quality services.
Individual Functional Training Supplement II (monthly)
This is an additional payment that utilizes LIFE and involves reviewing individual functional training plans through a series of cycles after meeting the requirements of I.
Additional fee for oral hygiene management I, II (per month)
This is an additional fee that evaluates the oral care provided to residents by dental hygienists under the instructions of dentists, and can be calculated together with other charges if the feedback information from submitting data to the Scientific Care Information System (LIFE) is utilized.
Additional fee for scientific care promotion system Ⅱ (per month)
This is an additional payment that utilizes feedback information provided by submitting data to the Scientific Nursing Care Information System (LIFE) to evaluate efforts to improve the quality of nursing care services.
Caregiver Treatment Improvement Surcharge I (Monthly )
This is a surcharge aimed at improving the wages and working environment of care workers and other staff working at care facilities. It was established to resolve the labor shortage, which is a major issue in the care industry.
Overnight stay expenses (only applicable to those who qualify)
This fee is calculated when a person is hospitalized in a hospital or stays overnight at their residence or other locations.
＊If a single hospitalization or overnight stay spans across months, the fee can be calculated for up to a maximum of 12 consecutive days.
