Health · Fitness & Nutrition · 12 hrs ago
Peer-support program for healthier aging spreads across Japan
A peer-support program in Sendai, Japan, is gaining ground as part of efforts to support healthier aging.
The program focuses on preventing frailty, a concern linked to aging.
It began in 2015.
Similar programs are now active in more than 100 Japanese municipalities.
That spread shows the approach has been taken up well beyond Sendai.
Details about how the program works day to day or what happens next are not given.
A peer-support program focused on frailty prevention was launched in 2015.
Similar programs are now active in more than 100 municipalities across Japan.
The program is gaining ground in Sendai.
- Who
- A peer-support program and similar programs.
- What
- The programs focus on frailty prevention.
- When
- The program was launched in 2015.
- Where
- Sendai and more than 100 municipalities across Japan.
- Why
- To prevent frailty.
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The peer-support program focused on frailty prevention was launched.
Similar programs were active in more than 100 municipalities across Japan.
- Launch year
- 2015
- Focus
- Frailty prevention
- Reach
- More than 100 municipalities across Japan