private sector’s role in healthy aging

The 3rd NIKKEI Super Active Ageing Society Conference

15 November, 2021

Private Sector’s Role in Healthy Aging

Case Studies from the

Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation

Japan Center for International Exchange

Momoko AbeProgram Officer


About JCIE• Japan’s leading nonpartisan, nongovernmental foreign affairs institute

• Long history of work on traditional and nontraditional security issues, civil society promotion, legislative exchange, cross-sectoral collaboration on policy issues

• Late 1990s—Focus on human security, start of work on global health

• Early 2000s—Launched Global Health and Human Security Program—work closely with government of Japan and other sectors

• 2017—Launched a program on Healthy and Active Aging in Asia, in cooperation with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) under the auspices of the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN)

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Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation

Technology & Innovation

Community-Based Initiatives

Self-Reliance

Initiative to seek and amplify innovative policies, programs, services, and products that address the challenges facing aging societies (2020–present)

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Case Study 1: Hatachi IndustryHealth Promotion Using Self-Sustained Movement (SSM) Program

Case of Japanese company

implementing a health promotion

program in Northeastern Thailand,

through collaboration with academic

institutions and local partners.

Concept:

Model for preventative care to extend

healthy life expectancy by introducing

Self-Sustained Movement (SSM) Program

Training of local SSM Master

and SSM Trainer who will run

the SSM program locally,

comprises MOPH staff

SSM Test: Screening and

evaluation of physical

capabilities

SSM Training: Selection of

light load muscles training

activities


Close cooperation with 8th Health Region Office of Thai MOPH

SSM program run by community health volunteers


Members of Hatachi Industry and partners, presenting the policy recommendations

for preventative care to MOPH

KEYS TO SUCCESS• Close collaboration with Thai partners at Mahidol University and MOPH ensured

effective project implementation

• Had a comprehensive plan with clear goals for introducing an already tested

product with a focus on transferability and sustainability

• SSM training activities were held in clinics and temples that were already familiar

to participants and provided a community space to enjoy exercising together

• The more granular nature of the SSM test when compared to other indicators of

health allowed the program to better identify frail older people who were one step

away from needing nursing care

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Case Study 2: Grundtvig.inc

The Housing Complex as One Big Family

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Case of building a nursing home

within a housing complex, providing

the residents with a sense of security,

both physical and psychological.

Concept:

Centered around the concept of “the

housing complex as one big family,” this

model serves as an intergenerational hub

that helps revitalize the local community,

in which the residents could live in peace

and age in place.

Urban Renaissance(UR) housing complex—a form of semipublic affordable housing

Aging rate within the complex: 80%

7th floor Community Space

6th floor Small-scale

multifunctional facility

Staff living on 3rd, 4th, 5th

floor : includes nurses,

PTs, OTs, care providers

Most of the staff are living

in the same community

Users 29Rooms located on

1st, 4th, 6th floor


Intergenerational

interaction

A learning environment for

children that nurtures

understanding and mutual

respect within the community

KEYS TO SUCCESS

• Approaching care through the lens of “the housing complex as one big family” and

creating an intergenerational community, which includes caregivers, has led to

improved care outcomes

• Care that places a premium on happiness and identifying what motivates the

individual empowers older people to take control of their own health and lives

• Ensuring each and every person, regardless of age, is included in community

building

• Leveraging existing affordable housing options dramatically reduced start-up costs

• Benefits for housing companies as rooms will be occupied, and social capital within

the community prevents solitary death among older persons

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