Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: View photos One of the world's most rapidly ageing and long-lived societies Japan is at the forefront of an impending global healthcare crisis. Authorities are bracing for a dementia timebomb and their approach could shape policies well beyond its borders. (AFP Photo/BEHROUZ MEHRI) More Kawasaki (Japan) (AFP) - Kanemasa Ito compares caring for his wife Kimiko to waging a daily war with the devil. The woman he loved has all but disappeared -- lost to dementia she can no longer eat bathe or go to the toilet alone. "There is a demon inside her head" Ito told AFP articulating the dramatic change in the person he'd built a life with while she babbles nonsensically. One of the world's most rapidly ageing and long-lived societies Japan is at the forefront of an impending global healthcare crisis. Authorities are bracing for a dementia timebomb and their approach could shape policies well beyond its borders. By 2025 one in five of the over 65s -- around 7.3 million people -- in Japan will have dementia the health ministry estimates up from around 4.6 million now. Alzheimer's Disease a syndrome in which cognitive ability emotional control and social b
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