ABSTRACT

This study was designed to derive policy implications for Korea by identifying the status of the current Dutch long-term care system through analyzing the content and direction of the system reformed in both 2007 and 2015. The research method of this study was to analyze a number of research results, press reports, Internet data, and policy data released by the Dutch health authority. The current Dutch long-term care insurance system has been operated within the community-based integrated care system that was reformed twice. The key elements of this integration system are locality and comprehensive meaning. Locality is to strengthen the aging in place, to identify individual long-term care needs based on the living area to seek solutions based on regional characteristics, customs and values, and to emphasize the importance of community participation. Comprehensive meaning is to integrate various services, to diversify the service provider, and to include the service target. While the Korean government has recently began to present the project of establishing a community care system, it is stated that Dutch reform cases are seen as a model of long-term strategy for designing and adopting an effective health, care and welfare integration system.