Survey shows gap in Japan's healthy life expectancy desire and reality english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 16 hours ago - 12:24 | All, Lifestyle, JapanTOKYO - A life insurance company survey released Thursday revealed Japanese people aspire to live a healthy life for much longer than official data show they actually do.
The ideal "healthy life expectancy," or the average period a person can live without requiring nursing or becoming bedridden, Japanese men hope for is 81.90.
But data show they are overly optimistic, with 2016 government figures revealing the actual average ages people need assistance are 72.14 and 74.79 for men and women, respectively.
Being busy was a major reason given for the lack of exercise and shorter than desired sleeping time.
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