Amazing Japanese Retirement Home and Senior Living that You Will Want to Live in Now 

Thanks so much for watching. Would love to hear your thoughts on Share Kanazawa and if you think this could be a potential model for other communities around the world?

I love the concept but i think she could do better. Early retirement is the key to a successful retirement.

Very good idea because some elderly person they miss their children and grand children so they won't be miss. Every body can do alot of activity in your place .Bravo

What a lovely concept ! This is what is missing from many senior living resorts - that you have just the elderly all around, no youngsters. This model takes care of that! The elderly and the young - they both need each other. It would have been nice if they'd shown the interiors of one of the residences where the seniors live.

Japan is really so far beyond the rest of the world its nuts

I really LOVE this concept of mixed living!!! We need this all over the world.

I am covered with goosebumps and feeling teary. I cannot state how strongly I love this concept. It's beautifully rendered. I am 60 and my friends and I often have conversations about what we'd like to see with regard to community living in our wisdom years. I am most definitely going to share this video with them. Thanks so much for sharing it!

This brought tears to my eyes. I so wish USA had something like this.

A total WIN/WIN situation!

Kanazawa is my hometown before I moved to Tokyo..so thank you for featuring it !

What a great idea to integrate and create opportunities for various age groups and backgrounds to connect and interact and support one another. It seems they're taking it back to how communities SHOULD BE instead of everyone living on their own and only taking care of themselves where they dont even know who their neighbors are. This is such a wonderful idea. It seems a bit quiet but I hope it blossoms as a community and that it becomes a positive example for similar communities around Japan and throughout the world. Thanks for shooting this beautiful video.

I want to live there now! It's Terrace House for all ages. I'd watch a reality show filmed here.

I know of an elder who resides part of the year at what was once called leisure world - a retirement community for 55 and older fit and lively people. I’ve heard of Vi village in Palo Alto that serves an active elder community. And I’ve heard of an organization called Green House Project that is a home based assisted living program that’s in about 25 states. These setups have a bent for either assisted living or active lifestyle clients - not integrated multineed communities that include children or the disabled and students and families focusing on symbiotic assistance within a micro community.Which to me seems far more engaging and emotionally stable. Great Video!

This is lovely. It reminded me of a proposal from Sweden. Many years ago, there was a pilot program proposal to change the zoning of all of the apartment buildings in a city in Sweden. All of the ground floor apartments would be reserved for the elderly. All the floors above would be for families or single adults. The idea was for the residents in the building to stop by to visit the elderly on the ground floor- to ask if they needed anything from the supermarket and or to just visit and chat. The feeling was that this would be beneficial for all. Children on the upper floors would have some relationship with their elderly neighbors downstairs and all would gain a sense of shared community. It was also believed that this kind of model would diminish the loneliness and isolation for all. The idea was to challenge the tendency to segregate and silo the elderly- but to integrate them in and within the neighborhood and community. I suspect that legal and bureaucratic obstacles may have sabotaged the proposal.

I enjoy learning about the microcosm that the designer has created with the fostering of relationships between different residents in an organic manner. Well done

Why don't we do elder care like this here in the states? It's maddening. This makes so much sense for everybody who participates in/lives in the facility. There's still a great opportunity for private corporations to make a solid profit in this kind of setup. I feel like this could work here in New York with public/private stakeholders. This makes me want to live in Japan... Great video. This info is impossible to find. Thank you for giving this info to those of us whose lives are upended as we try to figure out how to care for our aging parents.

this is an amazing concept... this type of care is needed in America ... respect, kindness, learning and care for each other is needed I am amazed at the concept of this way of living ... very well done. god bless you all

I really like the concept and it's so well maintained. It's nothing like the typical old folks home that gives you a "waiting to die" depressing environment.

You have some good ideas that the USA needs to implement .

Wow, i was so engaged and intrigued. I live in AZ and there is so much space to create a community like that. It is tragic we have the history we do for taking care of our Elderly. Our communities are ready for this type of arrangement bc the crisis exists.

Amazing - the mix of students, aged, and disabilities is unique I think - but so logical and heartfull. So many great ideas...Bravo Japan

I love this so much. Brilliant job, Risa and crew! What a gorgeous and thoughtful place to live for everyone. Makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful!

This is really beautiful. Senior Living is so important. I used to volunteer on the board of a senior program here in my town and it felt really good to see the big impact it made for those people and their families. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you, Risa, for sharing your experiences on Modern Age TV. The videos are sooo informative and inspiring! We all have to think about our own senior living as early as possible... THANK YOU! GREAT JOB!!

I am looking forward to visiting this community and have put it into my to-do list in my next trip to JPN

This beautiful!! Great video thank you.

My goodness. What a fantastic idea!! I love it & hope that it catches on everywhere.

What a warm, welcoming and wonderful place and fantastic concept. This is how it should be everywhere, nothing just a few places in the world. Thank you for this.

Why all seniors and disabled aren't treated this way throughout the world is sad... I want to move there... The language is so soothing when they talk low... Thanks for the post (2 years later)...

i am planning an assisted living center and wanted to offer free childcare for employees..this enforces how important connection of young and old are important.

I'm in the process of seeking a retirement community for my elderly mother, and I so wish I could help her settle into as engaging a community as the one profiled here. I love the multi-generational approach embraced by this community, and I wish there were a way to see more of that in action. Thank you for showing us an alternative path for assisted living.

"The alpacas just receive care " those freeloaders! lol!! Jk I just love it! Japan was such an awesome experience when I traveled there. I cannot wait to go back.

This is fantastic!

Truly loving and caring in a generation to generation full-circle format. Excellent. I wish I could live there.

Thank you so much for this video. It gives hope!

i love this. it is so innovative and makes such good sense.

What a bright 💡, love it

Thank you for sharing this. Love the innovative thinking.

This is beautiful!

Yes, having all generations living together is best

I love this concept, though we don’t have these type facilities in my place.. your video inspires me to improve daily care for my mom and gives another new perspective environment we can provide to our elderly

Great effort

What a wonderful community.

This is amazing

This is absolutely phenomenal. Combining old & young, & keeping everyone engaged & involved as much as they can be in living fully is a boon to older people. Wondering what the population is of the community living there. Confusion re the cost. Can you clarify what he meant?

This is wonderful! I wish there were places like this in the US.

Amazing!!Really does not surprise me because the Japanese culture is always thinking ahead of other countries. Very good concept for America 🇺🇸 if someone could get it started. Bravo 👏

Wished America would be more like that. I wished I was born in Japan.

What a cool place!

Thank you for making this video, though I am seeing it only three years later. The idea of community living is phenomenal! It sounds so simple, yet most governments choose the easier option, that is, to isolate facilities for elderly, disabled, children & youth separately, and in the end, a much divided society. The kids need to see that they too will grow old one day, and can have much to learn from the elderly, not only experience, but also stories, it's a link to the past. The students can have a cheaper lodging in return to serve the older people. And for the elderly, the last thing they want is to be pushed to a corner where there is only old people around, everything becoming purely functional oriented, no dignity, no respect, and eventually forgotten... This is really a great place and should serve as a an example for others to follow. Probably when the video was made, it was only recently opened. I expect there is more vegetation now, and I would suggest to add a bit more seating in the outdoor areas where the elderly walk around so that they can take a break if needed to. Perhaps some of the steps can become ramps instead so that even those who are using wheelchairs can benefit from this wonderful environment.

I would love to create one in the US just like this! So wonderful how everyone receives and gives care, and Alpacas receive care!❤

Please build something like this in San Jose, Ca!!!🌎❤️

This is an amazing concept. Quite well thought out. I was wondering about the extent of government involvement and costs - like how disproportionate is it compared to current models.

I love the student/disabled/elderly model! Why don't we do that here?

I wonder whether the community works as it’s designed for. Go back and check it out for the viewers.

This concept is very nice. But in the USA it would cost an arm and a leg for someone to live in a community like that. Here you either have family who you live with and takes care of you, have a lot of money and go into a nice senior community, or go into an assisted living facility and live a horrible life. Those are the choices here in the USA.

Japan is a rich country! I understand that most of the population comprised of the elderly! What I don't understand is why is the subsidy from the government only 1.30 with the elderly paying 4.50? Wouldn't it be good if elderly contributes 1.30 and government subsidize 4.50? It would be better still if FOC for elderly especially for those single, without children or next of kin!

A lot more modern than the Australian ones we are so back wards

Dear Modern Aging, please could you let me know how I could get in touch with Share Kanazawa? I work in care homes in the UK and am very interested in the ethos of this type of living for older people. thanks so much, Mary-Jane

All the Assisted Living facilities I visited while deciding on a place for my mother were not like this. All of them were just small apartments for the elderly to sit in until meal time. No stores, no animals, no where to take a walk safely. Just sit in your room. I would move my mother to Share Kanazawa if it were here.

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It is wonderful,but disabilty wise too many steps outside .

I never wanted to be an alpaca so bad

Are there any retirement condos or homes that cater to both Japanese and Chinese speakers? So, mom is a Japanese-speaker and father is Chinese-speaker. haha!

i'm curious what they charge the elderly to stay

How can I apply as care giver from Bangladesh?

How do I build this in California?

What is the cost of living here???

Does the staff speak English I am us senior Filipino

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In Denmark they have the same. Only they pay sex workers to offer services too. And you can get drunk all day if you so choose

Elderly care here is atrocious ! If you windup in a state run home your death clock speeds up drastically. Unqualified incompetent people are hired. Care goes right out the window. Even if they’re good caregivers they’re not given the time needed to properly care for each patient. Even our hospitals are under staffed.