{"title":"The Barriers and Opportunities of Foreign Care Workers in Japan.","authors":"Yasufumi Kochi","doi":"10.1080/01634372.2025.2555474","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Japan is expanding acceptance of foreign care workers as its population ages. This study conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 workers in Japanese care settings and analyzed their experiences qualitatively. Barriers-psychological, situational, and institutional-included difficulties with linguistic and cultural understanding, challenges in acquiring specialized terminology, insufficient career support, and weak daily living support systems. Opportunities included acquiring advanced care knowledge and skills and building trusting relationships with older adults. In building relationships with older adults across cultures, professional expertise was embodied beyond awareness and enhanced care quality. Findings suggest institutional and workplace reforms to leverage workers' strengths.</p>","PeriodicalId":47579,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gerontological Social Work","volume":" ","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Gerontological Social Work","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2025.2555474","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GERONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Japan is expanding acceptance of foreign care workers as its population ages. This study conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 workers in Japanese care settings and analyzed their experiences qualitatively. Barriers-psychological, situational, and institutional-included difficulties with linguistic and cultural understanding, challenges in acquiring specialized terminology, insufficient career support, and weak daily living support systems. Opportunities included acquiring advanced care knowledge and skills and building trusting relationships with older adults. In building relationships with older adults across cultures, professional expertise was embodied beyond awareness and enhanced care quality. Findings suggest institutional and workplace reforms to leverage workers' strengths.
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With over 30 years of consistent, quality articles devoted to social work practice, theory, administration, and consultation in the field of aging, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work offers you the information you need to stay abreast of the changing and controversial issues of today"s growing aging population. A valuable resource for social work administrators, practitioners, consultants, and supervisors in long-term care facilities, acute treatment and psychiatric hospitals, mental health centers, family service agencies, community and senior citizen centers, and public health and welfare agencies, JGSW provides a respected and stable forum for cutting-edge insights by experts in the field.
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