social sciences $€ £ ¥ Review Review AnAn AcquaintanceAcquaintance withwith AnAn Aging Society Kazumasa Yamada 1,2 Kazumasa Yamada 1,2 1 Organization for Co-Creation Research and Social Contributions, Nagoya Institute of Technology, 1 OrganizationGokiso-chou, for Showa-ku, Co-Creation Nagoya, Research Aichi and 466-8555, Social Contributions, Japan;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +81-52-735-5230 22 LiaisonLiaison Office, Office, Innovation Innovation Center Center for for Clinical Clinical Research, Research, National National Cent Centerer for for Geriatrics Geriatrics and and Gerontology, Gerontology, Morioka-chouMorioka-chou 7-430, 7-430, Ob Obu,u, Aichi Aichi 474-8511, 474-8511, Japan Japan Received: 31 January 2019; Accepted: 29 March 2019; Published: 3 April 2019 Received: 31 January 2019; Accepted: 29 March 2019; Published: 3 April 2019 Abstract: Low birth rates and higher life expectancy have been ravaging Japanese society. This Abstract: Low birth rates and higher life expectancy have been ravaging Japanese society. This article article summarizes some of the latest medical knowledge and assistive activities, with a nod toward summarizes some of the latest medical knowledge and assistive activities, with a nod toward one one nonprofit organization’s efforts to deliver better home healthcare to the elderly through housing nonprofit organization’s efforts to deliver better home healthcare to the elderly through housing and technologies, in the world’s first super-aging society. The response to the transforming society andrequires technologies, a combination in the world’s of familiar first super-aging customs and society.