Evaluation of the integrated care policy: performance and future directions

The purpose of this study is to overall review the operation status of the community integrated care leading project over the past three years and the issues derived from the operation process and to suggest future directions.Ahead of Korea’s entry into an super-aged society in 2025, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a road-map for promoting integrated community care in November 2018 to expand the regional care safety net with a health care-welfare-care-housing service provision system. Accordingly, the leading project for the development of a specific operation model has been promoted since June 2019, and the project is about to end in 2022. As a result of analyzing the operation process of the leading projects, it is necessary to set the criteria for those who need to be first intervened in policy for the implement integrated care, and to provide community-based health care-medical care-welfare-housing services to maintain local life for a long time. Efforts should be made to expand, and it seems necessary to establish an appropriate public private collaboration system and to prepare a sustainable financial operation plan so that a stable foundation can be established through the performance of each role.