Ageing in Asia—The Japan Experience

Ageing International - Tập 34 - Trang 1-14 - 2009
Norifumi Tsuno1, Akira Homma2
1Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2Dementia Intervention Research Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

Tóm tắt

In Asia, the past two decades have seen rapid demographic changes, including a shift in the population age structure, while increases in urbanization, educational attainment, and nonagricultural employment are affecting the social and economic landscape. All family systems in Asia traditionally faced the problems of generational succession, economic support of the non-active elderly and physical care of the frail elderly, but the structures that provided solutions to these problems were by no means uniform. An example of health service and social welfare for the elderly is the long-term care insurance, which was started in Japan from 2000. Asian societies are starting from an inherently different cultural, social, structural and economic base than the developed countries of the West. The strongly ingrained cultural basis of family responsibility for support and care of the elderly will lead to a transformation quite different from that characterizing the elderly in the Western countries.

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