Difficulty securing care personnel, including qualified staff
First written in FY2016. 21 of 32 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-11-05.
Care Service moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2016, 9 years before the typical company in this theme (2025).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2025: 5 of 17 companies on the "Worse" side.
12 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026MaterialisedAnnual report
「In the home-visit bathing service, both the number of cases and revenue declined due to a reduction in the number of vehicles in operation caused by a shortage of employees.」
The shortage of long-term care personnel has materialized in the form of declines in the number of vehicles in operation, service cases and revenue in the home-visit bathing service. - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「In the long-term care industry, labor and recruitment costs continue to rise due to soaring food and consumables prices, as well as a shortage of personnel serving older people who require care. In particular, recruiting and retaining long-term care personnel remains a major challenge for care providers.」
It is noted that the shortage of long-term care personnel, rising labor and recruitment costs, and the recruitment and retention of care personnel remain major challenges. - FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「Across all industries in Japan, recruiting personnel has become increasingly difficult each year. For our Group as well, securing personnel for growth and expansion and securing and retaining qualified personnel required to provide nursing care services remain major management challenges.」
The company continues to regard increasingly difficult recruitment and the securing and retention of qualified personnel as major management challenges. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, food and consumables costs continue to rise, and demand for nursing care services is expanding as the aging rate increases. However, securing personnel to provide services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult, personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel remains a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
While demand for long-term care is expanding, it continues to be noted that securing personnel at the right time and in sufficient numbers is difficult, labor and recruitment costs are rising, and recruitment and retention remain challenging. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「Across all industries in Japan, recruiting personnel has become increasingly difficult each year. For our Group as well, securing personnel for growth and expansion and securing and retaining qualified personnel required to provide nursing care services remain major management challenges.」
The company continues to regard increasingly difficult recruitment and the securing and retention of qualified personnel as major management challenges. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, the aging rate is rising each year and demand for nursing care services is increasing further, but securing personnel to provide these services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult. Personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel remains a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
Alongside expanding demand for nursing care, the company continues to describe the difficulty of securing personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, rising personnel and recruitment costs, and the challenges of recruitment and retention. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Securing personnel to provide services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult, personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel remains a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company continues to describe the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, rising personnel and recruitment costs, and the challenges of recruitment and retention. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Securing personnel to provide services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult, personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel remains a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company continues to describe the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, rising personnel and recruitment costs, and the challenges of recruitment and retention. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, in addition to soaring prices for consumables, utilities, and other items, it remains extremely difficult to secure personnel in a timely and appropriate manner. Personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel has become a major challenge.」
The company continues to describe the difficulty of securing and retaining nursing care personnel and rising personnel and recruitment costs as challenges. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, in addition to soaring prices for consumables, utilities, and other items, it remains extremely difficult to secure personnel in a timely and appropriate manner. Personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel has become a major challenge.」
The company continues to describe the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, rising personnel and recruitment costs, and the challenges of recruitment and retention. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, in addition to rising prices for consumables and utilities, it remains extremely difficult to secure personnel in a timely and appropriate manner. Personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel has become a major challenge.」
The company has reconfirmed the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, rising personnel and recruitment costs, and the challenges of recruitment and retention. - FY2022-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, in the home-based nursing care services business, the industry-wide shortage of nurses following the start of vaccinations resulted in higher recruitment and temporary staffing costs for day services and home-visit bathing services.」
The shortage of nurses materialized as actual increases in recruitment and temporary staffing costs for day services and home-visit bathing services. - FY2022-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, nursing care fees were revised in April 2021, with an overall revision rate of +0.7% for nursing care services. However, securing personnel to provide services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult, personnel and recruitment costs continue to rise, and recruiting and retaining nursing care personnel remain major challenges for nursing care operators.」
In addition to the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner and rising personnel and recruitment costs, the company describes a shortage of nurses across the nursing care industry following the start of vaccinations, indicating that the impact of personnel-related risks has become more specific. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as society ages, but securing personnel to provide these services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult, and managing and retaining nursing care personnel continues to be a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company has reconfirmed that, while demand for nursing care is increasing, securing, managing, and retaining nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner remain major challenges. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as the population ages, but securing personnel to provide these services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult. With personnel costs and recruitment costs continuing to rise, managing and retaining nursing care personnel remains a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
In addition to the difficulty of securing nursing care personnel in a timely and appropriate manner, the company continues to regard rising personnel and recruitment costs and the management and retention of personnel as major challenges. - FY2020-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as the population ages, but securing personnel to provide these services in a timely and appropriate manner is extremely difficult and continues to be a major challenge for nursing care operators.」
The wording concerning difficulty securing nursing care personnel has intensified from “difficulty securing sufficient personnel” to “extreme difficulty securing personnel in a timely and appropriate manner.” - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「Across all industries in Japan, recruiting personnel is becoming more difficult each year. In the care industry as well, securing and retaining care staff, including qualified personnel required to provide services, remains a major management challenge.」
The company continues to regard difficulty recruiting and securing and retaining nursing care personnel as a major management challenge. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as the population continues to age, but securing sufficient personnel to provide these services remains difficult and continues to be a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company has reconfirmed that, while demand for nursing care is rising, difficulty securing personnel to provide services remains a major management challenge. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as the population continues to age, but securing sufficient personnel to provide these services remains difficult and continues to be a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company has reconfirmed that expanding demand due to population aging and difficulty securing personnel to provide nursing care services remain major management challenges. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「Factors that materially affect operating performance are described in “2. Business Risks” under “II. Business Overview,” and in recent years, the risks described in “(5) Securing Personnel” have in particular begun to materialize.」
The wording concerning the risk of securing nursing care personnel has intensified from an ongoing challenge to the risk “beginning to materialize.” - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as Japan's population continues to age, but securing sufficient personnel to provide these services remains difficult and continues to be a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company states that, while demand for nursing care is rising, difficulty securing personnel to provide services remains a major management challenge. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as Japan's population continues to age, but securing sufficient personnel to provide these services remains difficult and continues to be a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company states that, while demand for nursing care is rising, difficulty securing personnel to provide services remains a major management challenge. - FY2017WorsenedAnnual report
「Across all industries in Japan, recruiting personnel has become increasingly difficult each year. Although demand for nursing care services is also rising, securing and retaining nursing care staff, including qualified personnel required to provide services, remains a major management challenge.」
The difficulty of securing and retaining nursing care personnel is described as having “become increasingly difficult each year” and is presented as an ongoing management challenge. - FY2017-Q2MaterialisedAnnual report
「Revenue increased in this business as a result of improved utilization rates at the core day-service operations and an increase in operating days from opening on Sundays. However, expenses increased because of higher personnel costs in existing businesses and rising recruitment costs.」
In connection with the difficulty of securing personnel, higher personnel costs and rising recruitment costs have materialized as actual increases in expenses. - FY2017-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「In the nursing care industry, demand for nursing care services is increasing as Japan's population continues to age, but securing sufficient personnel to provide these services remains difficult and continues to be a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The difficulty of securing personnel to provide nursing care services continues to be recognized as an actual management challenge. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「Securing the personnel, including qualified staff, required to provide nursing care services remains a major management challenge for nursing care operators.」
The company identifies securing personnel with professional qualifications, such as care managers, nurses, and certified care workers, as a risk to business expansion.