PMID: 15374286Sep 1, 1994Paper

Toward a society of maturity and harmony - a new plan for achieving longer and healthier life expectancies in Japan

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
A Igata

Abstract

Because of its rapidly increasing older population, Japan urgently needs sound and rapid progress in gerontology in order to create a new society, in which both young and old can live their active and creative lives in harmony. In order to establish such a society of maturity and harmony, the Japanese Government has begun a major national project, heralded by the establishment of a National Research Center of Gerontology. This center will begin functioning in 1995 in Nagoya, with the combined support of the National and the Aichi Prefectural Governments. This center will consist of a newly constructed research institute of 8000 m(2) with an attached animal facility, and a geriatric hospital with 500 beds for patients with dementia, those in a bed-ridden state, as well as those with various geriatric diseases. The close collaboration of the hospital and the research institute is expected to facilitate further progress in gerontology as well as in the education and training of specialized geriatricians and future leaders in gerontological research in Japan. In order to promote rapid progress in gerontology, a new foundation, the Japan Foundation for Aging and Health, has already begun its activities including the financial suppor...Continue Reading

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