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Field Productivity Dashboard

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  • September 12, 2025
    The data was updated.

Table of Contents

  1. Policies and guidelines for improving productivity in long-term care settings
  2. Dashboard to monitor the metrics
  3. Points to consider

1. Policies and guidelines for improving the productivity of long-term care workplaces

Background:

While the demand for care services is expected to increase further, the working-age population is expected to decline rapidly, and it is estimated that about 570,000 new care workers will be needed in 2040.

The graph shows the number of care workers as of 2022 (approximately 2.4 million) and the number of additional care workers needed in 2040 (approximately 2.72 million).

In order to respond to these issues, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is implementing a variety of comprehensive measures, such as improving the treatment of long-term care workers, including wage increases, improving the work environment, including reducing the burden of work by increasing productivity, and developing environments in which foreign long-term care workers can play an active role.

Of these, efforts to improve productivity at long-term care sites are defined as "enhancing the value of long-term care." The aim is to improve the quality of long-term care services and to retain and secure human resources through human resource development and efficiency improvement.

A Logic Model for Improving Productivity at Nursing Care Sites

In order to improve the productivity of long-term care providers nationwide and in local communities as a whole, it is important for the national government to provide the necessary support, for local governments to take the lead in efforts to improve the productivity of local long-term care providers, and for these efforts to be effective.

Ultimately, we aim to achieve sustainable long-term care services by reducing the workload of long-term care staff and improving the quality of long-term care services.

The illustration of the logic model for productivity improvement of the nursing field is displayed.

For more information, please visit:

2. Dashboard to monitor metrics

2.1 Key Indicators for Improving Productivity in Long-term Care Settings

We extract particularly important indicators in the logic model for improving productivity at nursing care sites, and collect and visualize the data. By monitoring the status of efforts to improve productivity, we can examine improvement methods on a regular basis.
For a detailed explanation of each item, see Data Definition .

Viewing Key Indicators for Improving Long-term Care Productivity in Full Screen

2.2 State of initiatives to improve productivity at long-term care facilities (by prefecture)

It shows, by prefecture, the efforts made by local governments and nursing care providers to improve production efficiency, including the status of the introduction of ICT, home care robot, etc., and the introduction of care plan data linkage systems.

Viewing the "Status of Efforts to Improve Long-term Care Productivity (by Prefecture)" in Full Screen

3. Important Points

Data:

Defining Data

Refresh Data

We plan to update the various dashboard numbers on a regular basis.

True or false information

For data-related true or false information, please refer to True or False Information: Dashboard on Improving Productivity in Nursing Care.

Opinions and Requests

Care Service Efficiency and Productivity Improvement Promotion Office, Elderly Support Division, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly
Tel: 03-5253-1111 (ext. 3875)