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The number of elderly people living at home has led to a great demand for care products for home use, and also the so-called "barrier-free" housing, which contains fewer steps and obstacles for the elderly. Apartment sharing between strangers is rare in Japan, most single people preferring to live in small sized individual apartments.
The large share of elderly, inflation-averse voters may hinder the political attractiveness of higher inflation, consistent with empirical evidence that aging leads to lower inflation. [62] Japan's aging is a major factor in the nation bearing one of the highest public debts in the world at 246.14% of its GDP.
The number of elderly living in Japan's retirement or nursing homes also increased from around 75,000 in 1970 to more than 216,000 in 1987. But still, this group was a small portion of the total elderly population. People living alone or only with spouses constituted 32% of the 65-and-over group.
The number of senior citizens living alone in Japan will likely jump 47% by 2050, a government-affiliated research institute said on Friday, underscoring the heavy burden the country's demographic ...
The number of prisoners aged 60 or older has risen 7 percent from a decade ago to 9,308, and made up 19 percent of the entire prison population in Japan in 2016. Aging Japan: Prisons cope with ...
In addition, Japan's welfare state embodies familialism, whereby families rather than the government will provide the social safety net. However, a drawback of a welfare state with the familialism is its lack of childcare social policy. In Japan, 65% of the elderly live with their children, and the typical household is composed of three ...
Just a few months out from the delayed Tokyo Olympics, Japan is utilizing their military to roll out COVID-19 vaccines to elderly residents of Tokyo and Osaka with the hope vaccinating the country ...
Single-room occupancy (SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [1]