Effect of a introduction of computer telecommunication network system into social welfare administration for aged persons in mountainous area

日本不是老龄化社会，而是老龄化社会。山区的情况更为严重，许多地方的公共机构已经进入超高龄化社会。他们需要为老年人采取措施，改善新的福利环境。他们中的一些人将尝试将电信网络系统引入社会福利政策。本研究的主要目的是了解和探讨利用电信网络系统进行福利管理，提高老年人的计算机素养，改善人口减少地区的福利和交通信息。因此，本研究通过家访访谈调查、问卷调查和地理信息收集等方式进行分析。取得的主要成果如下：(1)广岛县94个地方政府中已有48个地方政府建立了自己的主页，其中17个地方政府公开了老年人福利信息，如…增加对老年人的探访照顾、日间服务和短期服务。(2)山区铁路、专线公交车和乡村公交车之间的时刻表和路线调整根本没有考虑。未来要推动城市、城镇和乡村的大范围融合，必须研究山区的综合交通政策。(3)为了提高老年人的计算机素养，开发和完善适合老年人的硬件和软件是理所当然的。对老年人进行计算机操作教学的方法、他们对计算机态度的时间变化、他们希望获得的信息内容等。(4)老年人更倾向于获取日常生活信息，而不是非日常生活信息。他们特别需要关于健康和福利的信息。对他们来说，通过计算机网络自己收集更多的信息是很重要的。干预先进的信息系统，提高老年人的生活质量。(5)许多居民经常使用山区地方公共机构引入的老年人健康管理系统。但衡量山区社会福利政策的效果很重要，CVM对该政策的估计值较低，影响支付意愿的因素有收入、政策知识和年龄。较少

Japan is not an aging society but an aged society. The situation in mountainous area is more serious and there are many local public bodies where have become a super aged society. They need to take measures for aged persons and improve new welfare circumstance. Some of them will try to introduce telecommunication network system into social welfare policy. The main objectives of this study are to understand and discuss the welfare administration by means of telecommunication network system, computer literacy of aged persons, improvement of information about welfare and transport in depopulated area. Therefore, in this study interview survey by home visit, questionnaire survey and collection of geographic information were conducted and analysed. Obtained major results are described as follows ;(1) Forty eight of ninety four local administrations in Hiroshima Prefecture have already had their own homepage, and seventeen of them open the information about welfare for aged persons, such as … More visiting care, day service and short stay service for aged persons.(2) Adjustment of schedule and routes among railway, private route bus and village bus in mountainous area has not been considered at all. If wide area amalgamation of city, town and village were promoted in future, we must research on comprehensive transportation policy in mountainous area.(3) In order to enhance the computer literacy of aged persons, it is natural to develop and improve the hardware and software suitable for aged persons. And we could find out the methods for teaching to operate a computer to them, temporal change of their attitude of a computer, desirable information contents for them and so on.(4) Aged persons tend to want the information about daily life rather than non-daily. They need the information about health and welfare in particular. It is important for them to gather more information by themselves through computer network. Ant the advanced system of information is intervened to enhance their aged life.(5) Many residents have used often the system, which local public bodies in mountainous area introduce into management of health for aged persons. But it is important to measure the benefit of social welfare policy in mountainous area, the estimated values of that policy by CVM are low and factors influencing willingness to pay are income, knowledge of the policy and age. Less