Japan faces the problem of how to finance retirement, health, and long-term care expenditures as the population ages … raising social security contributions, debt financing, and a uniform increase in health and long-term care copayments …

Purpose: This study investigates the effect of the elderly on the household's financial transactions in Japan and Korea … significant effect on the household's financial transactions in Japan while the growth of 80+ has a more significant effect in … household's financial transactions in Japan and Korea, respectively. The interaction between the growing elderly population and …

Background: Cost sharing, including copayment and coinsurance, is often used to contain medical expenditure by … of the municipality National Health Insurance and the Japanese Health Insurance Association in Fukuoka Prefecture. We …. Results: The 10% coinsurance rate reduction led to a significant increase in healthcare expenditure for outpatient care. The …

to examine the health capacity to work at aged 50 and above. This study finds that, first, the health status of the … participation rate has not seen an equivalent increase alongside the improvement in health. Second, the gap in labor force …