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My Healthcare Revolution Produced by Japan

Overview  University of Tokyo Center of Innovation ‘Self-managing Healthy Society

  • Advanced technology for building a platform for healthy long life of the elderly
  • Lowering social security costs and encouraging investment by the elderly for their own healthy, pleasant life
  • Potential for promoting personal and economic independence of the elderly
To sustain an aging society with fewer children, with an elderly population of more than 40 million expected to last for a period of over 40 years in the future, it is important to create a new industry that contributes to the formation of a platform for the realization of healthy long life for the elderly.
Our nation anticipates an increase in social security service costs, including medical and nursing care costs, due to an aging society with fewer children. By the creation, however, of products that contribute to a healthy long life and a new industry that actualizes our concept of "From hospitalization to outpatient care, From outpatient care to home care, Being healthy at home," we can expect a decrease in social security cost and an increase in investment by the elderly for their own healthy and pleasant life.
A big impact can be expected from the creation of a path of innovation to the "self-managing healthy society", encouraging personal and economic independence of the elderly, changing from "dependence to the younger generation to coexistence with the younger generation."