老年学 ― gerontology

高齢者の所在不明がニュースになっています。海外メディアでも取り上げられているようです。

日本は長寿大国として今もその名声をとどろかせていますが、それが識字率にあるとか、日本食のおかげだとか、海外メディアの興味はつきないようです。


According to the health ministry, the upward trend in life expectancy is largely down to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, cardiac disorders and strokes, Japan's three biggest killers.

Takao Suzuki, general director of the National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology in Nagoya, believes that Japan's almost perfect literacy rate is also a factor. "Older people are able to consume a huge amount of health and lifestyle advice in the media," he says.
(Justin McCurry. Japan's women toast their own health as life expectancy rises again. The Guardian. August 1, 2010.)


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