The Impact of the Services and Support for Disabled Persons Act on the Parent–Child Relationship in Families of Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

To work through issues arising from the death of parents of adult children with intellectual disabilities, the necessity of having a public assistance system is socially agreed, and the budget for such a system has been increased in Japan. However, the impact of this increased budget and number of users on parent-child relationships is yet to be studied. Hence, the purpose of this study is to discuss whether the increased budget and number of users of public assistance for adult children with intellectual disabilities has addressed concerns about the aaermath of the parents death. It examines the amount of provision and utilization ratio of the Services and Support for Disabled Persons Act and connrms that a combination of care at a fare-paying institution during the daytime and care at home during nighttime by unpaid parents is the average situation of most adult children with intellectual disability. Based on this fact, this paper attests that assignation of care by society and family is still vague, and the current fullllment of public assistance by budget growth has not yet resolved post-parental-death concerns.