More and more nursing-care companies (especially companies with care attendants who visit customers' houses to take care of the patients or Itaku nursing-care service companies), whose main business is not taxi operations, are now getting a license for Common taxicab operators (limited to carry only patients or the like) for the purpose of taking the users of nursing-care services to a hospital or some other places ('Elder-care taxi').
本業がタクシーではない介護事業者（特に訪問介護・居宅介護事業者）が、介護サービスの利用者を病院などへ移送することを目的に、一般乗用旅客自動車運送事業（患者等輸送限定）という種別の許可を受けることも多くなってきている（「介護タクシー」）。