Want to be happy when you're old? Get a job
A Brookings Institution researchers has found "well-being" benefits to voluntary part-time employment as well as to remaining in the workforce beyond retirement age.
Government plans to cut number of elderly kept alive on feeding tubes
For the first time, Japan is trying to hold down the number of bedridden elderly people kept alive by feeding tubes.
SMBC angles for housing units for seniors before health care REIT IPO
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is seeking to buy about ¥10 billion in senior housing properties before taking its health-care real estate investment trust public. Sumitomo Mitsui is in talks with operators of homes for the elderly after it established a company in October that will ...
Inventors of self-help tools sought for the disabled and infirm
A welfare organization has begun compiling a database of "self-help equipment" designed to help elderly and disabled people make use of ordinary everyday items on their own, increasing their independence. Last December, the Association for Technical Aids, an incorporated public interest foundation based in Tokyo, ...
Elderly pair stay put in evacuated village
Toshi, 93, and Kinjiro Ide, 97, have chosen to live out their lives at their home in the village of Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, where evacuated residents are still hesitant to return due to the radioactive threat from the nearby nuclear plant catastrophe. The entire village ...
Tax-free gifts unlocking retiree savings
Shoko Iwasaki looked for years for a tax-free way to pass down a lifetime of savings to her grandson. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered the 71-year-old an answer with a program now helping unlock pensioners' hoarded wealth. "I'm so grateful for this tax measure, ...
The Oct. 11 fire that killed 10 people at a Fukuoka orthopedic clinic is a warning to the central and local governments of the consequences of letting fire-prevention equipment go unchecked.
At 77, he flips burgers to earn his old hourly wage in a week
It seems like another life. At the height of his corporate career, Tom Palome was pulling in a salary in the low six-figures and flying first class on business trips to Europe. Today, the 77-year-old former vice president of marketing for Oral-B juggles two part-time ...
Tattoos make inroads with 50 and older crowd
Thirty years ago, a good girl didn't walk into an establishment plastered with images of dragons and flames, hike her shirt up over one shoulder and let her body be injected with ink. Especially not if she was, like Darlene Nash, a 57-year-old grandmother. But ...
Photographer 'faces future' with portraits of centenarians
The idea of getting old scares most of us. We don't want to think about getting wrinkles, becoming bedridden or succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Still, we must come to terms with the fact that growing old is a reality for all of us lucky ...
Hospitals and clinics across Japan earned a record high ¥38.4 trillion in fiscal 2012, topping an average of ¥300,000 per person for the first time, preliminary estimates by the health ministry show. This was 1.7 percent, or ¥600 billion, more than the previous year and ...
