What's the secret to living to 100?

<h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Study, work, retire? How to prepare for a 100-year life</h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">Courtesy: <b><i>Driftxposa Health</i></b></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">By Eoghan Macguire, CNN </p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span class="timingText" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Posted at</span> 0408 GMT (1208 HKT) August 24, 2018</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><b>CNN HEALTH</b></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiwDvQL0d2p1ONv4PAAUj8Eo9CJRr_TKlTVUpTXxmmCebpvR1E2oCmt9ig0f5ef36SBURpoTwrKVrgdZr07kW9va4EDrJbM56ZK96WQRetOgTLnkXv6evMRa2rZicuYbM1FcIkkEiWoU/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiwDvQL0d2p1ONv4PAAUj8Eo9CJRr_TKlTVUpTXxmmCebpvR1E2oCmt9ig0f5ef36SBURpoTwrKVrgdZr07kW9va4EDrJbM56ZK96WQRetOgTLnkXv6evMRa2rZicuYbM1FcIkkEiWoU/" /></a></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">STORY<span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> HIGHLIGHTS,</span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">JAPAN</span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> with highest percentage of centenarians, is preparing for the 100-year life</span></p></div><div class="_53039000 storyHighlightsGlobal styles_storyHighlights__1IpdF _2df25e03" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px; border-width: 2px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(230, 230, 230) rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Experts say the world should prepare for larger aging populations</li></ul></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) — </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What's the secret to living to 100? Some say it's ensuring plenty of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/centenarians-exercise-diet-personal-finance-retirement-live-to-100.html#6fc67212cbe7" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">exercise</a>; others point to the benefits of a <a href="http://english.china.com/news/china/54/20151023/488922.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">mild climate</a>. There are even some who suggest that a<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/21/health/how-to-live-to-100-acciaroli-centenarians/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">healthy sex life</a> has plenty do with it.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The number of people<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>who live to 100 may be relatively small, but it's becoming more common -- particularly in countries like Japan, which has the <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/21/worlds-centenarian-population-projected-to-grow-eightfold-by-2050/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">highest proportion of centenarians</a> in the world.</div><div class="_53039000" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Data from Japan's Ministry of Health estimate that there <a href="http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201709150056.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">were</a> 67,824 Japanese people 100 or older as of 2017. In 1965, when the country began recording statistics on its senior citizens, there were just <a href="https://www.mhlw.go.jp/file/04-Houdouhappyou-12304250-Roukenkyoku-Koureishashienka/0000097112.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">153 centenarians</a>.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">As a result, policymakers in Japan have begun to look at how to cater to those who make it to the 100 club -- and what they find could be of use to the rest of the world in the years to come.</span><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpeS6wVwGUidrM_ebiOY_Oal_6Gn2ikhwUP-YIc0RQroMYeg13OESa2bSEpDZ6f4OJzIJPs6gNkSlm1j4jsrOYRKnUdMz3lXGHysB0M1WXHNVduMvKAvkMyx9LB2anmkDg3Gef74wf4A/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpeS6wVwGUidrM_ebiOY_Oal_6Gn2ikhwUP-YIc0RQroMYeg13OESa2bSEpDZ6f4OJzIJPs6gNkSlm1j4jsrOYRKnUdMz3lXGHysB0M1WXHNVduMvKAvkMyx9LB2anmkDg3Gef74wf4A/" /></a>Related<a aria-label="Related Article: Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Forget science (for now); living longer is in your hands" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/07/27/health/living-longer-sanjay-gupta/index.html" name="Related Article: Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Forget science (for now); living longer is in your hands" icon="" target="" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Article:</span> Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Forget science (for now); living longer is in your hands</a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Over the past year, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led a series of meetings at the <a href="http://japan.kantei.go.jp/ongoingtopics/pdf/2017/09/11/AimsAndThemes.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Council for Designing 100-year Life Society</a>, an expert group set up to prepare for a rise in the number of centenarians.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The committee has analyzed <a href="http://japan.kantei.go.jp/ongoingtopics/pdf/2017/09/11/AimsAndThemes.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">issues</a> as diverse as reforming social security policy, reappraising what it <a href="https://japan.kantei.go.jp/98_abe/actions/201805/_00023.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">means</a> to be elderly and diversifying corporate hiring practices.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">But it's not just more centenarians the country is having to prepare <span style="font-size: 17.6px;">for.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Challenges of an aging population</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Twenty-seven</span> percent of Japan's population is 65 or older, according to World Bank <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS?end=2017&locations=JP&start=1960&view=chart" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">data</a>. In 1990, that figure was as low as 11%.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">While living longer is usually a positive, it inevitably creates a number of practical challenges, such as the burden on the state to provide services, pensions and care for an increased number of elderly people. In Japan, this is compounded by a low birth rate, which means there are fewer people of working age to pay for services for the elderly through taxes or work for Japanese companies.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The number of newborns has fallen for 37 consecutive years in Japan, and the Ministry of Health <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/07/health/japan-child-population-record-low-intl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">projects</a> that the population will plummet from its current 126.26 million to 86.74 million by 2060.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">  A 'multistage' life</span><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"> those to attend early meetings of Abe's council was Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School and co-author of the book "<a href="http://www.lyndagratton.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity</a>."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">When addressing this issue of aging populations, she says, it's important that governments and businesses "tell a story" about how people can begin to live "multistage lives" in which they are able to take career breaks and work longer and across numerous fields. This "narrative" will help signal the challenges ahead and encourage the conversation on what life in aging societies will look like, Gratton adds.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgMAhwupYNdcuNLHmRM3YKllo54weBbE586kD9W84hFbmDW8-HVCuSX-hgMQe10Fo0Hfrh_32o_Llf5tXgaqO2B0zNs1GLwXI44HR0UmzaxOmVWZ0GE53XHXS3lONzal5i3lqf9xu45w/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgMAhwupYNdcuNLHmRM3YKllo54weBbE586kD9W84hFbmDW8-HVCuSX-hgMQe10Fo0Hfrh_32o_Llf5tXgaqO2B0zNs1GLwXI44HR0UmzaxOmVWZ0GE53XHXS3lONzal5i3lqf9xu45w/" /></a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Related<a aria-label="Related Article: A philosopher asks: Is a longer life a happier one?" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/07/23/health/living-longer-philosophy-partner/index.html" name="Related Article: A philosopher asks: Is a longer life a happier one?" icon="" target="" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Article:</span> A philosopher asks: Is a longer life a happier one?</a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The Japanese government has <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/08/17/editorials/extending-retirement-age-civil-servants/#.W3wWZc5KiUk" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">proposed</a> extending the mandatory retirement age for civil servants from 60 to 65. It has also <a href="http://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai-shimon/kaigi/cabinet/2018/2018_basicpolicies_en.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">spoken</a> of encouraging "recurrent education," helping people retrain throughout their careers, as well as enabling those who want to work into the later years to do so.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Professor Hiroko Akiyama of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Gerontology believes these are welcome developments but says the pace of change needs to be faster. "Our labor force is shrinking, so we have to take drastic measures now," she said.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Akiyama points to how job-sharing, flexible working patterns and telecommuting can all play a part in helping more people stay in the workplace longer. The likes of artificial intelligence and robotics, far from reducing job opportunities, can also help seniors work longer by compensating for qualities that people may lose as they get older, such as strength or flexibility, she adds.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Beyond the world of work, health care systems will probably be affected by aging populations and be forced to adapt accordingly. <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/how-will-ageing-populations-affect-politics/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Politics and values</a> could also be begin to change, with elderly people more commonly thought of as more conservative voters.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Managing an aging world</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Japan has been one of the most visible nations in addressing these challenges but is far from alone in being affected by them.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The global population of older persons (those 60 or older) numbered 962 million in 2017, according to the UN World Population Ageing <a href="http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/WPA2017_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">report</a>. That's more than twice as many as in 1980, when there were 382 million older persons world wide, and the number is expected to double again by 2050, to nearly 2.1 billion.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Aging populations are most pronounced in Europe and North America, according to the report. The US Census Bureau projects that the number of centenarians there will balloon from <a href="https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2017/PEPSYASEXN" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">86,248</a> in 2017 to <a href="https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2014/demo/popproj/2014-summary-tables.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">600,000</a> by 2060. Yet these issues are also weighing on the likes of <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/02/health/hong-kong-world-longest-life-expectancy-longevity-intl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="http://www.oecd.org/employment/emp/33906935.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://www.gov.sg/news/content/singapore-feeling-impact-of-rapidly-ageing-population" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Singapore</a>, <a href="https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/older-people/older-australia-at-a-glance/contents/demographics-of-older-australians/australia-s-changing-age-and-gender-profile" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Australia</a> and <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11955333" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">New Zealand</a>.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">By 2050, older persons are expected to make up 35% of populations in Europe, 28% in North America, 25% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 24% in Asia, 23% in Oceania and 9% in Africa, the UN report estimates.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Gratton points to positive developments in Denmark, which has looked at <a href="https://www.health-rehab.dk/skjulte-artikler/danish-health-and-elderly-care-2030-a-future-study-scenario/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">scenarios</a> for future elderly care, and Singapore, which she says has gone through its policies and removed any suggestions that older people may be less able to perform certain tasks or roles than younger people</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh_ntVSgs7KAVT4DizYJw5fC7Nj_rokLjuENeB9fj1C7z3cXLhSxhdMeuLZAZl_BILiYUvfr42gwyklkAJGWNErZ_j-m76baGipwItlkvb_DAMc-lrOQr13zKzgmcAO7CPjIUdI_UYY4/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh_ntVSgs7KAVT4DizYJw5fC7Nj_rokLjuENeB9fj1C7z3cXLhSxhdMeuLZAZl_BILiYUvfr42gwyklkAJGWNErZ_j-m76baGipwItlkvb_DAMc-lrOQr13zKzgmcAO7CPjIUdI_UYY4/" /></a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Related<a aria-label="Related Article: In the 'land of the immortals': Japan's centenarian pop band" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/06/08/health/japan-longevity-centenarians-aging-population/index.html" name="Related Article: In the 'land of the immortals': Japan's centenarian pop band" icon="" target="" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Article:</span> In the 'land of the immortals': Japan's centenarian pop band</a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Akiyama, meanwhile, says Japan has been forced to look at the issue earlier than most nations, given the pace at which its population is aging. The country's politicians also seem less eager than others to attract young foreign workers</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Age of opportunity?</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Yet there could also be opportunity within the challenges of an aging society.</span><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Businesses in Japan have begun to open <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Japan-s-Aeon-goes-gray-with-gyms-for-seniors" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">fitness clubs</a> that cater to the elderly while robot carers have been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-ageing-robots-widerimage/aging-japan-robots-may-have-role-in-future-of-elder-care-idUSKBN1H33AB" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">introduced to nursing homes</a>, high-value devices that could become lucrative exports.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Gratton says Japan is at the forefront of developing robotics and machines that assist the elderly while "over-55s are spending more than anybody else" in the country.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">However, she adds that countries globally must also begin to plan for a future in which the traditional three-stage life of study, work and retirement no longer applies.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Sign</span><a href="https://cnn.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=47c9040f6ff957a59bd88396e&id=ddc799ed25" target="_blank" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;"> up here to get <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"People have got to be much more proactive," she says. As well as planning, saving and staying healthy, they must be "more savvy about what the future is going to be like."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Rather than thinking about growing ever older, she adds, people should think about being younger for longer.</div>

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