Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. These people are the focus of the initiative AHWIN (“AH-win”), which awarded a 2022 innovation prize to ORANGE LINKS for fingernail QR codes to aid them. In 2000, the ten-year “Gold Plan” for these people expanded with the LCTI program. Until 2015, some of these people received a costly drinking cup for a holiday that falls on September’s “Happy Monday” during Silver Week. Dan Buettner identified lessons from a “hotspot” of these people, like moai groups and hara hachi bu, in writings on Okinawa’s “Blue Zone.” Annoyance at these people inspired the terms kaigo jigoku (“KYE-go JEE-go-koo”) and rougai (“ROH-guy”). Kane (“KAH-nay”) Tanaka was a record holder among these people, whose growing economic cost reduces the potential support ratio and raises Japan’s dependency ratio. For 10 points, “silver democracy” refers to the disproportionate welfare given to what large segment of Japan’s population? ■END■
ANSWER: old people [or elderly, seniors, geriatric, long-lived, or supercentenarians; accept grandparents, dementia patients, Alzheimer’s patients, retirees, pensioners, or equivalents of any; accept toshiyori, oi, uba, obāsan, or ojīsan; accept roujin or roujo or roufu until “rougai” is read; accept Respect for the Aged Day or Keirō no Hi or Toshiyori no Hi; prompt on patients, sick, ill, or equivalents by asking “with what other trait?”; prompt on parents] (Clues include the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative and long-term care insurance.)
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