Young athletes are being recruited to plug a staff shortage in Japan’s nursing homes. The results are reshaping elder care.

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KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do. Rena, 18 months, is a baby worker at a Japanese nursing home, ...

TOKYO-- At least 11 people were found dead in Japan on Wednesday, most of them elderly residents at a nursing home, as heavy overnight rain from Typhoon Lionrock left towns flooded across the ...

People with family members requiring care due to dementia and other conditions often struggle ceaselessly to cope with the condition of their loved one. Their main support is provided by specialized ...

Nursing students at a Catholic university in Japan learn to integrate professional skills with values of love, dignity, and holistic care, reflecting the study’s findings on Catholic identity in ...

Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will actively promote the recruitment of nursing care staff from Southeast Asia, from fiscal year 2025, to cope with the serious labour shortage in ...

As Japan’s population has aged, nursing home numbers have grown rapidly. Between 2005 and 2020, those numbers have more than doubled, to 1.8 million, according to government records. For seniors, ...