[A development of the network for functional trainings in daycare services in a large district]

After the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) regulation has been enacted, all the daycare agencies/institutions must provide functional trainings to their clients as one of the standard services. However, the regulation is limited only to their personnel arrangement rather than the service content, which is left to each agency/institution. We feel that functional trainings as a daycare service need more attention so that we can bridge the content gaps between agencies/institutions. To solve this problem, we planned to send training professionals to these daycare providers in the surrounding areas. At the same time, we have been holding training courses for daycare stuff and each trainer, which contributed to fill the knowledge and skill gaps between these trainers'. The purpose of this paper is to report our study with some suggestions about the ideal functional trainings in the future daycare services.