Background. Advance care planning (ACP) is becoming increasingly important in the primary
care setting because of its positive impact on the end-of-life care. Objective. We aimed to …

PURPOSE Social isolation has been identified as a major health problem, particularly in the
elderly. In the present study, we examine the association between social isolation and …

Objectives Several instruments for evaluating patient complexity have been developed from
a biopsychosocial perspective. Although relationships between the results obtained by …

Background Japan faces the most elderly society in the world, and the Japanese government
has launched an unprecedented health plan to reinforce home care medicine and …

Background To discuss how best to implement the gatekeeping functionality of primary care;
identifying the factors that cause patients to bypass their primary care gatekeepers when …

Objectives To assess multiple preventive care measures and to examine their associations
with having a usual source of primary care and primary care performance during the COVID-…

Objectives To investigate autonomy preferences and the factors to promote active patient
participation in a primary care setting in Japan.

Background The Japanese government is promoting physician‐led home visits as well as
end‐of‐life care at home. However, the proportion of deaths occurring at home has remained …

Objectives Longitudinal studies, which consider multimorbidity patterns, are useful for better
clarifying the effect of multimorbidity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and for …

Objective To determine the incidence of fever among elderly persons under home medical
management, diagnosis at fever onset and outcomes from a practical standpoint. Design …