Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...
Elderly single women in Japan are finding a new way to stave off loneliness — get thrown in prison. With more than 4 million elderly women living alone in Japan, twice as many as men, the older ladies ...
Just as Japan's elderly population continues to grow, their care needs are growing too. Japan initiated mandatory long-term care insurance (LCTI) in 2000 to help older people lead more independent ...
It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...
Yukiko Namekata, a resident at an elder care facility in Tokyo run by Zenkoukai, and her caregiver follow the movement of a miniature humanoid robot called PALRO. At top, AIREC, an artificial ...
Despite a huge elderly population, Japan has had few COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. Experts say it comes down to a culture that respects the elderly, and because people took the pandemic seriously ...
As a core feature of Abenomics 2.0 set forward in September 2015, the government pledged to raise the birthrate to the “publicly desired level” of 1.8 children per woman, and further advance ...
HONG KONG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners paid over $300 million to wholly acquire Unimat Retirement Community Co (URC), a Japanese elderly care service provider ...
Here’s a striking statistic: by 2050, only 30 years from now, there will be 1.6 billion people over the age of 65. That means hundreds of millions of them will require care, or at least some form of ...
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