Nursing care insurance system starts from 1998. A decrease in young working power and an increasing demand for better quality of life in service delivery makes assistive technologies indispensable. In 1993 the Technical Aids Law was enacted. This law aims to develop and deliver assistive technologies, which compensate functional limitations of aged and disabled persons. To this end it defines responsibility of central and local governments, and private sector such as manufacturers, distributors and relevant institutions.
Local governments are responsible for dissemination of information.
Private sectors are responsible for delivery of high quality equipment to satisfy individual needs. MHW combined Golden Plan and the Technical Aids Law to construct information networks for dissemination of knowledge on assistive technologies. It plans to install Practical Health Care Training and Dissemination Center in each of 47 prefectures and 13 major municipalities. This is a center administered by local government to train care workers. Its function includes demonstration, consultation, and dissemination of information on assistive technologies.