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要介護者
Person Requiring Long-Term Care
身体や精神に障害があって介護を必要とする人。介護保険では、要介護認定の判断で要介護認定が行われて、その人に介護が必要かどうかや、どの程度必要かが決まる。
A person who has physical or mental disabilities and requires long-term nursing care. Under the Long-Term Care insurance, certification of needed long-term care is conducted by judging the degree of necessary long-term care, and whether or not long-term care is necessary, and through this process to what degree of long-term care and is decided.