Hey, Prime Minister. How can you carefully explain this discrepancy?
As long as I remember, the Japanese government is planning to extend the retirement age up to the age of 70 to cut down on the budget for social welfare. It gives them a headache to cover the pension provided from the age of 65 when thinking about the surging number of elderly civilians. They are now cajoling us to receive the pension much later 70 years old by offering more merits.
On the other hand, the latest medical report has revealed that the number of dementia patients will rise from 1/7 to 1/4 at 65 shortly. It means if they extend the retirement age to 70 years old, how many dementia patients will be working in a company? Besides, it is hard for those patients to admit that they suffer, and their families would deny it of their pride. So, they try to force themselves to keep working.
If it happens, it goes beyond our imagination how employers would manage the HR division to use those nearly 70-year-old people as their workforce for their business, and how the Japanese government would assist those companies to boost the Japanese economy.
Can they make our market competitive in the world with those people?
Now, more people keep working until the age of 65, and they will have to continue their job until 70. Who knows who might have dementia by then? Or even current workers have already suffered from it including higher-ups ?
How about aged present politicians ? Oops!
