Its function includes demonstration, consultation, and dissemination of information on assistive technologies. This circumstance is suitable for training care workers using assistive technologies. They are playing the central role for utilization of assistive technologies in each area. In-home Care Support Centers, which includes the technical aid center, equipped with catalogues and common assistive technologies. They are normally installed in nursing homes or technical aids shops.
Care workers serve for consultation on assistive technologies.
The target equipment should meet and assist user's needs in daily life. The adopted project should complete within 3 years, and the total subsidy fund should be less than 80 million yen. ATA scheme also provides the subsidy to cover the survey and investigation cost on assistive technologies with less than 5 million yen and within 2 years. The applied and adopted projects in these nine years are summarized in Table 1. The numbers of applications have steadily increased and exceeds over one hundred recently.