Japan Dental Association has been working on prevention of NCDs and frailty to increase healthy life expectancy, with a goal to enable all citizens to enjoy being able to chew and speak over their entire lifetime. As a front-runner of super-aging societies, stakeholders including clinical practice, academia, and public sector, etc. are working together to achieve this goal. The presentation introduces various activities in this effort.
Learning Objective :
- Following the extension of average life expectancy, its discrepancy from the healthy life expectancy has been recognized as a society-wide problem in Japan. How dentistry can contribute to this issue is discussed from the viewpoint of a female dentist and director of Japan Dental Association.
