DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
SECTION ANNUAL CONFERENCE15 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Professor Keiko Katagiri
Affiliation
Kobe University, Japan
Bio
Keiko Katagiri is a professor at the graduate School of Human Development and Environment of Kobe University, Japan and a director at the Kobe Active Aging Research Hub. She obtained a PhD in social psychology (social psychology) in 2006 from the University of Tokyo.
She received awards from the Gerontological Society of America in 2006, the Japanese Society of Social Psychology in 2012, the Japan NPO Research Association, and the Japan Socio-Gerontological Society in 2013.
Her research focuses mainly on the third agers. Her research topic covers social participation, civic engagement, social isolation, social capital, older workers, urbanization, and older families in Asian countries etc.
She is an active member of the interest group of Aging among Asia in GSA and engaging in several interdisciplinary international comparative researches on the topic of social inclusion between Japan and South Korea, the lifelong learning between Japan and Ireland. Recently she engages in collaborative research with AI and ICT researchers. She has been a member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work. Currently, she presides the international comparative research on effects of COVID-19 on older adults. She has published in gerontology, psychology, and sociology and her publications include several books, numerous journal articles, and book chapters.
Abstract
Challenges for Japanese senior
citizens in the third age
Japan has a fast-ageing society, with an ageing rate of 27.3% in 2016. Japanese senior citizens face many years of life after retirement. Although the recently revised Law for the Stabilization of Employment of the Aged in 2013 was enacted to ensure that society provided a friendly working environment for the elderly, most companies still have a mandatory retirement age.
Since Japanese companies adopted a lifetime employment system only recently, the Japanese are not accustomed to making life plans and do not think seriously about retirement. Yet nowadays, to facilitate successful ageing, it is necessary to plan to live until age 90 or even 100.This is a very new phenomenon and many Japanese are at a loss, and usually, do not think about their retired life seriously when they are in their middle age.
The model of civic participation (Katagiri, 2017), including social participation, civic engagement, and productive activities, is a promising approach to ageing successfully. Katagiri showed that people in their third age can choose from among these three options. Further, Katagiri explained that these activities offer seniors a meaningful, healthy life, and some income, and helps them develop social networks that will prevent social isolation in later years. Additionally, these activities will help Japanese society, which is facing the decreasing productive population. We urgently need to identify ways to promote seniors’ participation in such activities.
Professor Keiko Katagiri
Affiliation
Kobe University, Japan
Bio
Keiko Katagiri is a professor at the graduate School of Human Development and Environment of Kobe University, Japan and a director at the Kobe Active Aging Research Hub. She obtained a PhD in social psychology (social psychology) in 2006 from the University of Tokyo.
She received awards from the Gerontological Society of America in 2006, the Japanese Society of Social Psychology in 2012, the Japan NPO Research Association, and the Japan Socio-Gerontological Society in 2013.
Her research focuses mainly on the third agers. Her research topic covers social participation, civic engagement, social isolation, social capital, older workers, urbanization, and older families in Asian countries etc.
She is an active member of the interest group of Aging among Asia in GSA and engaging in several interdisciplinary international comparative researches on the topic of social inclusion between Japan and South Korea, the lifelong learning between Japan and Ireland. Recently she engages in collaborative research with AI and ICT researchers. She has been a member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work. Currently, she presides the international comparative research on effects of COVID-19 on older adults. She has published in gerontology, psychology, and sociology and her publications include several books, numerous journal articles, and book chapters.
Abstract
Challenges for Japanese senior citizens in the third age
Japan has a fast-ageing society, with an ageing rate of 27.3% in 2016. Japanese senior citizens face many years of life after retirement. Although the recently revised Law for the Stabilization of Employment of the Aged in 2013 was enacted to ensure that society provided a friendly working environment for the elderly, most companies still have a mandatory retirement age.
Since Japanese companies adopted a lifetime employment system only recently, the Japanese are not accustomed to making life plans and do not think seriously about retirement. Yet nowadays, to facilitate successful ageing, it is necessary to plan to live until age 90 or even 100.This is a very new phenomenon and many Japanese are at a loss, and usually, do not think about their retired life seriously when they are in their middle age.
The model of civic participation (Katagiri, 2017), including social participation, civic engagement, and productive activities, is a promising approach to ageing successfully. Katagiri showed that people in their third age can choose from among these three options. Further, Katagiri explained that these activities offer seniors a meaningful, healthy life, and some income, and helps them develop social networks that will prevent social isolation in later years. Additionally, these activities will help Japanese society, which is facing the decreasing productive population. We urgently need to identify ways to promote seniors’ participation in such activities.
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