Le Journal au Japon: this is what a CHSLD looks like in the land of the rising sun

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A CHSLD, a daycare, a community center… The Happy Rokken seniors' home near Osaka is a mix of all that… and it works very well!

“We have about 200 people a week who come to see us,” says founder Yoshihiro Shuto. Needless to say, the 40 elderly residents who live in his care home never miss a visit.

• Listen to Richard Martineau's interview with Hugo Duchaine, journalist on QUB radio: 

Even in Japan, the Happy Rokken house acts as a exception. If the tradition in the country has long been for children to take care of their parent, the appearance and multiplication of CHSLDs in the land of the rising sun has become inevitable with the ever-increasing number of seniors.

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