Fukuoka City

An advanced approach to thesuper-aging society:
The Fukuoka 100 Project
Background and Reason for the Project
New community-building initiatives forabundant living in the fast-approachingsuper-aging society
Fukuoka City is one of the few cities in Japan
where the population is increasing; however,while the elderly population aged 65 years orolder is continuing to increase, the workingage population (aged 15–64 years) has
virtually levelled off. Furthermore, the young
population (aged 0–14 years) is anticipated tobegin declining in 2020. Accordingly, theelderly population is continuing to increase,and is estimated to reach 24.8% by 2025 and31.0% by 2040. Moreover, it is expected thatthe number of people requiring nursing caredue to dementia and other illnesses will also
increase.
Against this background, it is posited that in
the future Fukuoka City will have increasingly
greater and diverse healthcare and welfare
needs, while the number of people providing
these services will decrease.
In addition, because the percentage of thetotal population deemed to be of working age
is declining, it is predicted that there will also
be issues such as increases in social security
expenses. Thus, in order to overcome theseissues, in 2017 Fukuoka City launched theFukuoka 100 Project as a sustainable social
model for anyone and everyone to live a fulllife in good health.

model in response to the super-aging society,consisting of community-building initiatives
that bring happiness to both individuals andsociety by incorporating new ideas andmethods conceived by private enterprises anduniversities into government policies andmeasures,
inadditiontocreating
opportunities for residents to realise that that
they, too, will be personally affected by theissues that will occur as the aging of society
progresses, and begin working towards
solutions.
Project Outline
Key words are “All Fukuoka” and“Sustainable Community-building Initiatives”
The Fukuoka 100 Project encompasses not
only healthcare, medical care, and nursing
care, but also community-building initiatives
in a broad sense, including housing,community-building, and working styles, withnot only government agencies but also local
residents, businesses, and universities—“AllFukuoka”—working in industry-academicgovernment collaboration to promote theproject. Below is an introduction of theproject’s four main initiatives.
1. Dementia-friendly City ProjectWith the aim of creating communities inwhich people with dementia can live withpeaceofmindintheirfamiliarneighbourhoods, various classes are held toteach local residents about methods forcommunicating with and caring for people
with dementia, and guides for designingfacilities that provide a comfortable living
environment have been compiled.

Project Aims
Create a regional society that fits with the“Age of the Centenarian” through industryacademia-government-civic collaboration.
Looking ahead to the “Age of the Centenarian”,
the project is promoting a sustainable social
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information
collaboration
among
professionals in multiple medical and nursing
care occupations, as well as regarding thevisualisation of community needs.
3. Initiatives promoting shopping support
In response to residents’ communityspecific needs and said community’s specialtraits (e.g. a lack of supermarkets nearby or anabundance of hills making shopping
impossible), community-specific mechanisms
have been created to provide shopping
support in various forms, such as theestablishment of mobile street stalls andtemporary retail outlets.

Classes for local residents

Class at a primary school

Mobile street stalls
4. Project
supporting
activesocialparticipation by seniors
In order to build a society in which elderly
people can play an active role in society for as
long as possible, efforts are being made tocreate the environment and mechanisms
needed to match elderly people who wish towork with companies through support for
employment
oftheelderlyandencouragement of companies to employ
elderly people.

Example of dementia-friendly designs
2. Community-based
integrated
care
information platform
To enable elderly people who requirenursing care to also live peacefully in a morefamiliar neighbourhood, data related tohealthcare, medical care, and nursing care iscollected and managed centrally, enabling

Features, Innovation2

An advanced approach to the aging societythat utilizes Fukuoka’s strengths
Fukuoka City has the strengths of being astart-up city with an environment that
supports people challenging themselves and acity that has an involved community while also
being an urban centre.
Utilising the strengths of start-up
companies with new technologies such as ICT,Big Data, and AI, as well as the strengths of thelocal community, efforts to extend healthy
longevity and create an environment in whichpeople needing support can live with peace ofmind are being promoted through industryacademia-government-civic collaboration.

Because the super-aging society anddeclining birthrate that Japan is currently
facing is a situation that the world has yet toexperience, previous rules of thumb cannot
be applied.
Especially in Asian countries that are rapidlyapproaching Japan’s level of aging society,many are focusing on Japan’s initiatives as amodel for the super-aging society.
By bearing fruit from this project, we intend
for the Fukuoka 100 Project—which aims toachieve regional community-building inresponse to the aging of society throughindustry-academia-government-civiccooperation—to become a project that can bepropagated throughout the world as aJapanese model for success, contributing to
the world’s efforts in countering the effects ofsociety’s aging.

Results of the Project
The Fukuoka 100 Project aims to implement
100 new initiatives through “All Fukuoka”
industry-academia-government-civic
collaboration by 2025, and as of the end ofNovember 2020 is currently proceeding with70 initiatives.

Reference URLs
https://100.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/(“Fukuoka 100 Project” official website)

Issues and Responses
The Fukuoka 100 Project is a communitybuilding initiative movement for the “Age ofthe Centenarian”
Maintaining and improving health are said
to be greatly influenced not only by anindividual’s own efforts to help themselves,
but also various social factors in said
individual’s surroundings, such as theirhousing, community, school, or workenvironment.
Looking ahead to the “Age of theCentenarian”, the key to creating a societythat can truly rejoice at the prospect oflongevity is thought to be the ability topromote initiatives as community-building
initiatives in a broad sense while at the sametime further expanding not only healthcare,
medical care, and nursing care services but
also the circle of participation by various
industry-academia-civic actors.

Contact
Division in Charge: General Affairs & Planning
Department, Public Health & Welfare Bureau
Phone: +81-92-711-4544
E-mail:kenkosenshintoshi.PHWB@city.fukuoka.lg.jp

Future Developments
We wish to make the Fukuoka 100 Project
the global standard
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