Silver Hues - Building Age-Ready Cities: Japan Background Paper

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Silver Hues - Building Age-Ready Cities: Japan Background Paper

dc.contributor.author	Yuen, Belinda
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-27T13:47:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-27T13:47:13Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	Japan’s shift toward a super-aged society is being fueled by a combination of demographic factors. These include declining marriage and fertility rates and increases in life expectancy enabled by advances in medical science and improved nutrition and living conditions. Another trend is the rise in the number of older single-person or couple households as a result of various lifestyle and demographic changes, including a general decrease in average household size, the rise of smaller nuclear households, and the growing number of people who remain unmarried. The socioeconomic challenges arising from an aging and declining population have been at the forefront of Japan’s political and public policy discourse since the rapid population aging trend was first recognized in the 1980s. Central to the aging population challenge is the decline in working-age population, which could lead to labor force shortages and lower economic growth. Recognition of these growing challenges has engendered a shift in aging policy toward aging in place and healthy aging, with older persons encouraged to remain active and in their existing communities for as long as possible. The idea is not only to improve the well-being of older persons and their quality of life, but also to reduce the burden on the state of providing for the burgeoning health and welfare needs of a super-aged population. Japan has implemented several policies, guidelines, and programs to promote healthy aging. Japanese authorities and cities are implementing several projects in housing and homebased care to facilitate aging in place. Some of these projects are reviewed in this report.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099620005252230269/P172017079371c0860ae850c8c42429c031
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/37478
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/37478
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	SUPER-AGED SOCIETY
dc.subject	DECLINING FERTILITY RATE
dc.subject	LIFE EXPECTANCY INCREASE
dc.subject	SMALL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject	NUCLEAR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject	LABOR FORCE SHORTAGE
dc.subject	AGING IN PLACE
dc.subject	HEALTHING AGING
dc.subject	ELDERLY HOUSING
dc.subject	GERIATRIC HEALTH
dc.title	Silver Hues - Building Age-Ready Cities	en
dc.title.subtitle	Japan Background Paper	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Silver Hues - Building Age-Ready Cities
okr.date.disclosure	2022-05-25
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-07T12:42:53.506104Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2022-05-25T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Report
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099620005252230269/P172017079371c0860ae850c8c42429c031
okr.guid	099620005252230269
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	33827796
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	33827796
okr.identifier.report	171813
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099620005252230269/pdf/P172017079371c0860ae850c8c42429c031.pdf	en
okr.region.country	Japan
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Housing & Human Habitats
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Urban Communities
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Country Population Profiles
okr.topic	Urban Development::City Development Strategies
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Housing
okr.unit	Urban GP (SURGP)