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Japan’s integrated total care vision for an ageing population
With its older population rising to one in three by 2025, Japan’s healthcare has changed radically and sets the right example for the UK, Mayumi Hayashi says in the second article in this HSJ series
The “2025 vision” is the Japanese government’s ambitious aspiration for the delivery of healthcare and social care for its ageing population through the establishment of a localised, comprehensive “total” care provision. This envisages the inclusion and integration of healthcare, long term support, preventative initiatives, housing and supported living programmes, together with other welfare services such as safeguarding, outreach and dementia care.
Go on the internet – or lose access to government services, Francis Maude tells pensioners
3:51PM BST 10 Jun 2014
Elderly people will have to have to go on to the internet or risk losing access to key government services, Francis Maude has said
Elderly people will have to have to go on online or risk losing access to key government services, Francis Maude has said
The Cabinet Office minister said in the future most public services would only be available on the internet “because we think that is a better thing for people’s lives”.
The hidden army of carers
Some 6.5m people described themselves as carers in the last Census
10 June 2014 Last updated at 09:13
Nick Triggle Health correspondent
The state of the NHS and social care system is never far from the headlines.
There are 1.4m people working for the health service and a similar number staffing care homes and providing vital home help. But these figures are dwarfed by a hidden workforce – the UK’s army of carers.
Some 6.5m people identified themselves as carers in the last Census – that’s one in eight adults in the UK. Over the next 20 years that number is expected to grow to 9m.
Some of these people are just providing a few hours care a week for someone, but significant numbers are doing much more – and according to new research need greater help.
