Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and
Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females.
Today, Japan has the highest life expectancy and is the world's
most rapidly aging society. Public Policy and the Old Age
Revolution in Japan captures the vitality of Japanese policymakers
and the challenges they face in shaping a modern society responding
to its changing needs. The rapid transition to an aging society
poses a set of complex policy and resource dilemmas; the responses
taken in Japan are of great value to policymakers, professionals,
and students in the fields of gerontology, Asian and Japanese
studies, sociology, public policy, administration and management,
and anthropology in other industrial aging societies. Readers of
Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan will discover the
array of social and economic implications that comes with an
increasingly aged society. Such a change in demographics affects
pension expenditures and pension contributions, capital formation
and savings rates, health costs, service systems, tax bases, labor
pools, career counseling, training, advertising, and marketing.
This book does not stop with these topics, however. Readers also
learn about: how older Japanese workers are staying employed and
employable policies in Japan for a smooth transition from work to
retirement Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers the new direction
of health services in Japan the Japanese financing system for
elderly health care the expansion of formalized in-home services
for Japan's aged Japanese housing policy and the concept of
universal design the Gold Plan, a comprehensive ten-year plan to
promote health care and welfare for the aged the concept of
ikigai--promoting feelings of purpose and self-worth in the
agedPublic Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan is one of
only a handful of books prepared in English by American and
Japanese authors for an international audience about aging and
social policy in Japan. The book's recent collection of articles by
leading scholars on the subject makes it a unique and timely source
of information. Above all, Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution
in Japan makes it clear that the rest of the world has many
valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's approach to its
rapidly aging society.
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