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高齢者保健福祉推進十か年戦略

Ten-Year Strategy to Promote Health Care and Welfare for the Elderly (Gold Plan)

ゴールドプラン(Gold Plan)とも言う。消費税が導入された1989年、1990年から1999年までの10年間をかけて長期的に高齢者介護の基盤整備を進めようと策定された計画のこと。高齢社会を健康で生きがいを持って、安心して一生を過ごせるよう、介護基盤の整備を進める方針を具体的な数字で示した。

This is also called the ‘Gold Plan’. In 1989, the year the consumption tax was introduced, this plan was established to promote the development of infrastructure for care for the elderly during the next 10 years (1990 – 1999). With clear numbers to target, this plan showed its policies of development of infrastructure for care for the elderly, in order for them to live their lives with purpose, healthily and peacefully.