The 10^th Anniversary Fukuoka Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific 2016(ACAP 2016) was held on 5(Sat)-6(Sun) March at Fukuoka-city. Dr. Takeo Ogawa(Project Director, Community design by Functional Integration for 2030) was a chairperson, the steering committee of this conference. RISTEX was one of the sponsorship, and the members of Redesigning Communities for Aged Society R&D Focus Area participated in this conference.
From 5 March to 6 March, poster session was held, and 16 posters of 15 R&D projects & 1 Focus Area were posted on as special frame(reference below).

At 6 March, Prof. Hiroko Akiyama, this area Director, spoke about this R&D focus area activities at Symposium Ⅲ: Designing communities for an Aged Society, and participated in the panel discussion. Prof. Akiyama insisted the importance of the Networking for creating & sharing solutions for Aged Society. In addition, it was very impressive that the concept of “Intergeneration” was talked about repeatedly in the symposium.

In the World Café in the afternoon, 3 themes below were discussed by international members.
1. Perspective of high technological services for older persons
2. Perspective of the international long-term care training center
3. Perspective of the solution center for aged society
3^rd perspective is Future prospect of this R&D focus area. So a variety of opinions in this future prospect was acquired.

About 150 people from overseas, particular in Asia, participated in the conference. This means that rapidly aging of society is a common issue in Asian countries.

16 posters of 15 R&D projects & 1 Focus Area (reference)

0.“Redesigning Communities for Aged Society” Research and Development Focus Area（PDF：681KB)
1. Community Design by Functional Integration for 2030（PDF：1,772KB)
2. Founding the Center for Usability and Aging Research (CUAR) with senior citizens（PDF：788KB)
3. Development of a new “Index of Competence” reflecting improved health status of the elderly（PDF：870KB)
4. Senior citizens’ new career model in the community（PDF：516KB)
5. Innovations in age-friendly farming（PDF：1,616KB)
6. Community design for temporal housing sites in the tsunami stricken area（PDF：320KB)
7. Network Community for Refugees Dispersed in a Wide Area（PDF：785KB)
8. Aging in Place with ICT（PDF：900KB)
9. Expanding social capital in a community by utilizing assistive technology for walking（PDF：1,135KB)
10. Housing and Healthy Aging（PDF：615KB)
11. Development of a community-based comprehensive system for prevention of frailty in late life（PDF：635KB)
12. Community Design for Preventing Dementia（PDF：1,083KB)
13. Health Care Decision-making Support for People with Dementia in Japan（PDF：382KB)
14. Promoting Public Consciousness of Decision-making on Elderly Care（PDF：538KB)
15. Development of an area diagnosis tool for promoting home medical care（PDF：603KB)