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🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Could living in a home designed to deliberately demand more effort from you each day help you stay fitter and more alert in your later years? And could people living with dementia be better integrated in the community through work? Aki Maruyama Leggett examines some of the novel ideas for senior housing and social care emerging in Japan.
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0:20.8 | Welcome to the documentary, Japan New Ways to Grow Old with me Aki Mariamleget. |
0:29.0 | Many Japanese people will live to a hundred but will we have a good quality of life? |
0:35.7 | We know that living in the world's fastest ageing nation means that public health and social services |
0:42.1 | are going to |
0:42.6 | struggle to meet the needs of millions more older people. |
0:47.3 | So what innovations in housing and care might help us. |
1:01.0 | Could living in a home designed to deliver to demand more effort from you each day help you stay fter and more allowed in your later years? |
1:05.0 | Please come in. |
1:07.0 | Here in the West Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, there's a brightly colored apartment complex built to do just that. |
1:14.0 | Director Momoy Homer opens the door into an apartment which looks more like a |
1:20.4 | children's playground than a space where elderly people might live. |
1:24.5 | So maybe you'll be surprised with this bumpy floor. |
1:28.5 | The floor itself is slightly sloped and you have bumps. Your feet are gripping each bomb. And also at the same time you will get good foot massage. So many people just love this floor. |
1:44.0 | There are poles, ladders and hanging ropes which you can use for exercise or to support you as you move around the apartment. |
1:52.0 | You can walk. to support you as you move around the apartment. |
1:52.8 | You can walk like this. |
1:55.6 | When you feel like, uh-oh, I'm falling down, |
1:59.6 | your arms or your leg would make a next action to keep your balance. |
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