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NURSING HOMES

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2020
Coronavirus exposes dangers of age segregation
Americau2019s embrace of retirement communities and nursing homes has led to a unique vulnerability.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2018
Short-staffed nursing home in Kagoshima Prefecture denies mismanagement after six residents die
A nursing home in Kagoshima Prefecture where six people died in just over a month has denied any mismanagement even though it staffs the facility with just one overnight caregiver for its 30 residents.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2018
Former worker sentenced to death for killing three at Kawasaki nursing home
Yokohama District Court found the defendant guilty of murdering residents at the care home by throwing them off balconies at the facility in Kanagawa Prefecture.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 10, 2018
Nursing care abuse targeting seniors climbs 11% to new record
A record of 452 cases of nursing home abuse involving the elderly were reported in fiscal 2016, rising 10.8 percent from the previous year and completing a decade-long climb, according to a welfare ministry survey.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 18, 2018
84-year-old woman swindled out of ¥70 million in nursing home scam
An 84-year-old woman in Tokyo has been swindled out of around ¥70 million ($632,000) after she was told to send money to avoid problems related to a nursing home establishment, police said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2016
Untimely call of nature leads to inspiration for pocket toilet-time monitor
Business ideas are often hatched in unlikely places. But for Atsushi Nakanishi, an epiphany could not have hit him at a worse time.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 27, 2015
Steps unveiled to up elderly housing, child care; skeptics hit lack of specifics
A government panel announced a package of measures Thursday to increase the number of nursing care homes for the elderly and to make day care services available for more children.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 15, 2015
Toyonaka nursing home worker allegedly tried to strangle female resident
An employee at a nursing home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, injured a female resident by trying to strangle her, according to city officials.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2015
Evacuation of Fukushima elderly riskier than then-exposure to radiation: study
A study says the evacuations from nursing homes posed a greater health risk to evacuees than the radiation they would have endured had they stayed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 1, 2015
Home for aging guide dogs, owners in works
The Chubu Guide Dog for the Blind Association based in Nagoya is working to build the nation's first intensive care nursing home where elderly people and retired guide dogs can live together.
EDITORIALS
May 8, 2014
Social welfare is not for profit
A deregulation panel for the Abe administration has called on the health ministry to let private businesses run nursing care homes even though the operation of these homes is not supposed to be for profit.
EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2013
Lax fire regulations cost lives
The Oct. 11 fire that killed 10 people at a Fukuoka orthopedic clinic is a warning to the central and local governments of the consequences of letting fire-prevention equipment go unchecked.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 24, 2013
'Grandma export' exposes Germany's struggle with care
Sonja Miskulin has forgotten her beloved cat, Pooki. She can't remember whether she has grandchildren and has no memory of her nine-hour journey one recent Sunday to forever leave behind her home in Germany.
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2013
Nursing homes' financial reserves
Cash reserves are piling up at Japan's intensive-care nursing homes under the insurance system, but there are few plans disclosing how the reserves will be used.

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