The government is also seeking to keep as many elderly people as possible in their own homes, but this represents a burden that many families find hard to bear that sometimes results in dramatic situations. Homes for the elderly must also set up a system for promptly reporting cases of abuse or suspected abuse to municipalities. These sessions will become mandatory by the 2024 fiscal year. Japan's Health Ministry has added regular training sessions on abuse prevention to the obligations imposed on retirement homes in 2021, in response to this increase in abuse. 'He was overworked due to the shortage of manpower,' admitted Toshihiko Kumazaki, the association's director. The same year, another caregiver was arrested for assaulting a resident of a nursing home run by the Gero Welfare Association, in central Gifu Prefecture. In 2019, a caregiver stabbed a resident who was unable to communicate due to dementia problems. While the rise in abuse is partly the result of the Ministry's encouragement of reporting, it also points to enduring problems with training, stress management, and even the existence of an environment that is conducive to acts of abuse.

Additionally, a record 332 people are said to have been restrained. This figure is up 14% over the previous financial year, with 51.5% of victims suffering from physical abuse, 38.1% from psychological abuse and 23.9% from a lack of care. There is no reassurance for the quality of services, either, after the Health Department recorded a record 2,390 cases of elder abuse, including two deaths, in the financial year that ended in March 2022. Rising costs have already forced 16.2% of homes to cut staff and suspend new hires. 'Retirement homes are unable to pass on cost increases to consumers in the same way as other businesses,' the organization said.Īccording to the survey, 64.3% of the establishments consulted believe they can overcome the problem by saving on electricity or foregoing salary increases and bonuses. In the coming years, 27% of such 11,575 establishments could go bankrupt, if soaring prices for services and goods continue, according to a survey conducted by Minkaikyo, an association of elderly care providers. Rising prices are threatening the finances of Japan's nursing homes, which are already facing growing staff shortages against the backdrop of the country's increasingly aging population. Subscribers only Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits a retirement home in Tokyo, May 19, 2022.

More than a quarter of the country's retirement homes could go bankrupt in the next few years as Japan struggles to adapt to its aging population.īy Philippe Mesmer (Tokyo (Japan) correspondent) Published on July 13, 2023, at 4:57 pm (Paris), updated on July 15, 2023, at 8:17 am Inflation and staff shortages threaten Japan's care for the elderly

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