{"title":"Traditional Japanese medicine in geriatrics, evidences and the guideline","authors":"K. Iwasaki","doi":"10.21037/lcm.2019.09.01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Japan has become an unprecedented super-aging society. The average life span of Japanese is 90 years. However, not everyone can stay healthy for life. Healthy life span is 10 years shorter than life span. Many spend an average of 10 years in need of care. In such a situation, what can traditional medicine do?","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/lcm.2019.09.01","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Longhua Chinese medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm.2019.09.01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Japan has become an unprecedented super-aging society. The average life span of Japanese is 90 years. However, not everyone can stay healthy for life. Healthy life span is 10 years shorter than life span. Many spend an average of 10 years in need of care. In such a situation, what can traditional medicine do?