The nursing robots market is poised for growth due to the aging population, nurse shortages, and increased healthcare spending. Key opportunities lie in elderly care, hospital task automation, and ...

Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...

Japan has a significant and growing number of elderly individuals living alone. The estimate goes from a quarter to a third of the elderly population. With Japan's elderly population (aged 65 and over ...

In Japan, where nearly a third of the population is over 65, caring for the elderly has become a national challenge. With an aging workforce and growing demand for care services, innovative solutions ...

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

HONG KONG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners paid over $300 million to wholly acquire Unimat Retirement Community Co (URC), a Japanese elderly care service provider ...

Scammers in Japan are setting their sights on some of society's most vulnerable members: elderly people living alone with ...

Nearly every aspect of the country’s life is changing to adapt to the growing elderly population, from its public spaces to its social policies. One of the oldest geishas still working in Japan, Ikuko ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners paid over $300 million to wholly acquire Unimat Retirement Community Co (URC), a Japanese elderly care service provider, a ...