The Roles of Local Governments against Social Isolation and Loneliness: Focusing on new policies
Dan Kayama 都市問題 114- (7) 43 -52 2023/07
A Review of Community Welfare Pracitices against Problems of People's Daily Living which the Covid-19 caused
Dan Kayama 滋賀社会福祉研究 (25) 11 -17 2023/02
Reviewing and Landscaping the Academic Circle, 2021: in the Community Social Welfare Division
Dan Kayama Japanese Journal of Social Welfare 63- (3) 174 -188 2022/11
A Study about the trends of social contribution activities by cooperation of social welfare corporations
Dan Kayama 地域ケアリング 24- (13) 58 -63 2022/11
The Trends of Social Cotribution Activities by Social Welfare Corporations
Dan Kayama 東洋大学社会学部紀要 60- (1) 113 -128 2022/11
What is Coexistence Foreign Residents in Community?: Learning about their Needs on Daily Living
Dan Kayama 民生委員・児童委員のひろば (10月) 2 -4 2022/10
The Trends of Policies and Practices of Community Social Welfare against Social Isolation: Focusing on the Discretion of Local Governments and Social Workers
Dan Kayama 社会福祉研究 (144) 32 -41 2022/08
A Study about Community Welfare Councils Practices under Covid-19(2): A Case Study of Toshima City
This study tries to investigate the possibilities of programs and functions of “Outreach-based Life Support System (OLSS) in the environment of rapidly developing big cities in Japan and Korea, where many isolated and frail people live alone. Against the situations,“Mimamori”(Caring Watch) system has been introduce in Tokyo Metropolitan Area in order to enhance caring watch among the neighbors as well as local delivery workers who have important information about the isolated people living alone.
These initiatives are compared with the Korean “Dorbom System”, which are intended to find difficulties of living alone elderlies of some troubles in everyday life. However, this system is introduce by the initiatives of the central government and fairly strictly controlled by local government. In this point, Japanese systems are more local-residents oriented and expecting more local participation.
This social survey is conducted on the purpose of analyzing the effectiveness of Community Welfare Plans through comparative studies among Municipalities in the Kinki Area. The focus of this survey is to clarify the developmental strategies of local communities by the Health and Welfare Departments of Municipalities with the use of Community Welfare Plans. This survey was resulted in the following findings ; (1) the importance of organizing local area organizations to promote people's participation, (2) the importance of Community Workers or Community Social Workers to play the role of change agents.