{"id":25556,"date":"2020-12-08T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/concern-lonely-deaths-japan-dementia"},"modified":"2020-12-08T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:24:39","slug":"concern-in-japan-over-high-number-of-lonely-deaths-while-living-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25556","title":{"rendered":"Concern in Japan over high number of \u2018lonely deaths\u2019 while living with others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia linked to many instances of people dying at home among family but remaining undiscovered for days<\/p>\n<p>Officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have warned that dementia and the fraying of traditional community ties are contributing to a new social phenomenon \u2013 people who die at home but remain undiscovered for days, even though they were living with family.<\/p>\n<p>The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported that 538 people died \u201clonely deaths\u201d while living with others in Tokyo and Osaka between 2017 and last year, prompting experts to call for more support for struggling families.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/concern-lonely-deaths-japan-dementia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia linked to many instances of people dying at home among family but remaining undiscovered for daysOfficials in Japan have warned that dementia and the fraying of traditional community ties are contributing to a new social phenomenon \u2013 people wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1777,1506,346,88,744,1222,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-death-and-dying","category-dementia","category-health","category-japan","category-mental-health","category-older-people","category-society","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions\/25557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}