“Well, I can’t die yet—not with these kids around, you know,” says a man in his mid-70s, smiling happily as tanned face crinkles up. It was last April, as cherry blossom petals fluttered in the air, when I first encountered this gentleman at an apartment complex. The complex looked almost deserted, with residents growing old and few people walking around the neighborhood. But this gentleman was always doing something in the yard in front of his home—I couldn’t stop thinking about him. But my bigger question was numerous fish tanks there, each about 50-cm big, surrounded by plastic bottles filled with red liquid. What in the world were they? Since no other residents filled up the space in front of their homes, his place really stood out. This mystery was solved in May, during a group activity for senior women in the complex. When I casually brought up the topic, the members chimed in one after another: “Oh, that’s the killifish school principal.” Accordi...
国際長寿センターは1990年の設立以来、エイジズムに反対し、豊かで創造的な社会を目指す国際長寿センター・アライアンスの「プロダクティブ・エイジング」の考え方に沿って活動してきました。 私たちはかねてから日本の長寿社会に関する情報について調査研究やイベント結果の発信を報告書やHPで発信してきましたが、より機動的にまた読みやすい形で発信するためにブログの形式も利用することとしました。 内容は、現在の日本の高齢者と高齢社会のすばらしい事柄から、課題や方向性など含めながらコンパクトな記事を用意していきます。 ご愛読をお願いします。