Government aims to slash number of hospital beds more than 10% by 2025
The government intends to slash hospital beds nationwide by more than 10 percent from the number in 2013 to 1.19 million in 2025, hoping it will curb ballooning medical costs as the population grows older.
Should the government promote the migration of the greater Tokyo area's elderly residents to rural parts of the country to avert a crisis in welfare services for senior citizens?
A total of 67.2 percent of those 60 or older says they have little or no access to the Internet, a government survey released Friday shows. The survey said the ratio of elderly interested in using the Internet was lowest among the oldest respondents. Those ...
The Chubu Guide Dog for the Blind Association based in Nagoya is working to build the nation's first intensive care nursing home where elderly people and retired guide dogs can live together. The association, which trains and provides guide dogs to visually impaired people in ...
Lawmakers OK health care reforms to address growing costs for the elderly
The changes include increased cost-sharing by high-income workers, higher meal costs for hospital patients and more expensive fees to see a specialist at a large hospital without a doctor’s referral.
The number of traffic accident deaths nationwide declined in 2014, but the share of elderly people killed was the highest in nearly 50 years, according to a government report issued Tuesday that called for further development in safe-driving technology like automatic braking systems. A total ...
Pope Francis on Sunday asked a group of elderly and sick members of Rome's seaside parish to pray for him because he, too, had grown old and was ailing. "Pray for me, too, eh," Francis told the parishioners in a private meeting that was later ...
80% of workers under 65 with dementia get fired or quit: health ministry survey
About 80 percent of premature dementia patients either have to quit their jobs or get fired by their employer, a health ministry survey shows.
Seniors grow to 26% of population as Japan shrinks for fourth year straight
Japan’s population falls for the fourth consecutive year and people 65 or older now account for a record 26 percent of the total.
Some prisons in Japan becoming 'like nursing homes' amid surge in elderly offenders
Most prisons spend a lot of time and effort keeping inmates from escaping, but a greater challenge is convincing some convicts to leave. Among developed economies, Japan has one of the highest proportions of elderly prisoners. Crimes committed by senior citizens have quadrupled over the ...
Be kind to live long, world's oldest woman says from Arkansas
The world's oldest person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver of Arkansas, believes the key to longevity is treating other people kindly. Weaver, born on July 4, 1898, lives at a senior care facility in Camden, Arkansas, where she exercises in her wheelchair three times a week and ...
Harassment probe yields video of nursing home abuse; three men arrested
A trio of employees at a nursing home in Nagoya have been arrested on suspicion of physically abusing a 93-year-old female resident and taking a video of the act.
