Koichi Hiraoka

Biographic Data

ID6334942
NAMEKoichi Hiraoka
GIVEN NAMESKoichi
FAMILY NAMEHiraoka
SIGNATUREHIRAOKA K
AFFILIATIONSMeiji Gakuin University
ORCID0000-0002-9967-0789
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • Research trends in sociological studies on social security and welfare

    Open AccessKoichi HiraokaARTICLEInternational Sociology2021References: 5

    This article reviews the research trends in welfare sociology (sociological studies on social security and welfare), one of the many subfields of active research in sociology in Japan. For this purpose, several research streams formed from the 1970s to the 2000s are described, and some of the most important research results produced within these in the past two decades are introduced. In the latter part of this article, a broad overview of the re…

  • Measuring the Social-Care Service Needs of Impaired Elderly People in Japan

    Open AccessIkuko Nakano, Y Shimizu et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society1996References: 2

    This study aims to measure objectively and/or estimate the needs of impaired elderly persons and their families for social care services. The research was carried out in Maebashi, a medium size Japanese city. In our study, ‘impaired elderly persons’ included both physically and/or mentally impaired persons. In total, 693 impaired elderly persons and their families were classified according to 20 specific types of need: these ‘need types’ were cro…