Japan's Health Care System

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number of workers compared to the number of elderly―worsens. As well as renovating the healthcare system to meet the needs of the elderly, the government will need to come up with innovative ways to raise revenue and cover the labor shortfall by. To do so, for example, the government could encourage more women to work and make better use of the talent available in the elderly population.

The government has created a positive outlook on the situation, providing vision of the opportunities an ageing population presents; however, now it must encourage others to follow. As part of its strategy to adopt demand-led economic growth, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has revealed an ambitious vision to turn the ageing of society into a growth opportunity, while also providing reasonable healthcare costs and improving the quality of life. Now the government needs to focus on the details. Among the fundamental issues that must be addressed are the lack of high-quality research on ...

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suggests that scientists, innovators, and businesses need to think more broadly about what the market needs.

Japan's choices in innovation will be educational to other countries facing similar problems. The more important tasks that Japan will take on is managing its limited resources in terms of medical and nursing care, and determining the role of the private sector, both in caring for the elderly and in developing products and services to improve their quality of life. Other countries could learn from how Japan uses innovation to support home-based care for the growing number of elderly living alone in cities where neither neighbor nor family members are available to support ...

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