Satoko Fujioka, the co-founder of a home health-care clinic and community center in Karuizawa, is one of them. At Hotch No Lodge, which has hosted elderly residents since 2020, she decided that ...

A major national survey of over 9,000 elder-care institutions in Japan showed that in 2019, only about 10% reported having introduced any care robot, while a 2021 study found that out of a sample ...

Japan is home to the oldest population in the world, with around 29% of people - 36.3 million - aged 65 and over. This means better equipment to support healthy ageing and retain mobility is vital ...

A Hope College professor is hoping that his research into how Japan is caring for its burgeoning elderly population will provide insights as the U.S. copes with the same need as the "baby boomer" ...

MINAMI UONUMA, Japan -- When the harshest winter in two decades heaped five feet of ice and snow onto 71-year-old Takeo Tokozumi's creaky roof last month, the proud rice farmer and his wife weren ...

Japan would expect to need 1 million mostly foreign elderly care workers by 2025. Japan does not like foreign workers, so they are very motivated to get robots instead. Yomiuri Shimbun. The Japanese ...

But Japanese women increasingly rebel against traditional expectations that they will stay home to care for aged relatives, creating an ever-larger pool of elderly people in need of care.

The elderly population is ballooning so fast that Japan will require 2.72 million care workers by 2040, according to the government – which is now scrambling to encourage more people to enter ...

Japan's Sompo Holdings, Inc. is using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging population.

The elderly population is ballooning so fast that Japan will require 2.72 million care workers by 2040, according to the government – which is now scrambling to encourage more people to enter ...

The elderly population is ballooning so fast that Japan will require 2.72 million care workers by 2040, according to the government – which is now scrambling to encourage more people to enter ...