Building a dementia-friendly community from Kobe city

Hisatomo Kowa

Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences

Kobe city has established a local law to build a dementia-friendly community and has started a public expenditure system for the diagnosis to dementia on January 2019.　Additionally, Kobe city has started a compensation system of accidents caused by or involving dementia people on April 2019.　These systems are called “Kobe model for realizing dementia-friendly community” and gathering considerable attention from other local governments.　This review aims to introduce the Kobe model and to indicate some issues to be solved for establishing a real dementia friendly community.

Address correspondence to Dr. Hisatomo Kowa, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences（7-10-2 Tomogaoka, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 654-0142, Japan）