Nursing Care

Sompo Holdings and Sompo Care have produced an educational manga about nursing care as part of their efforts to transform the image of the profession and inspire children to see it as an aspirational career.
The manga published by Kodansha BC, have been donated to approximately 20,000 elementary schools and 3,000 public libraries across Japan.
Through this initiative, Sompo Holdings and Sompo Care hope to spark children’s interest in nursing care and encourage them to view it as a profession worth aspiring to.

SOMPO Care launched a collaboration in August 2024 with NSDC International, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), to provide training programs for Indian nursing care personnel and facilitate their integration into Japan.

In this initiative, Sompo Care, leveraging its extensive knowledge and experience in Japan, will develop original training programs in addition to the Japanese language courses conducted by NSDC International. The programs will include online training and e-learning modules. Furthermore, a dedicated training room for caregiving will be established locally, where SOMPO Care instructors will provide practical care skills sessions and theory training on-site in India.

Indian personnel trained in Japanese caregiving methods and culture are expected to be deployed as ready-to-work professionals at SOMPO Care facilities in Japan, after acquiring specified skilled worker qualifications.

Through this effort, SOMPO Care aims to facilitate integration of overseas nursing care personnel into Japan and contribute to addressing the supply-demand gap in the caregiving workforce.

Sompo Holdings and KCJ GROUP INC. opened a Care Support Center pavilion at KidZania Tokyo, a facility that provides work and social experiences for children. The pavilion operated by Sompo Holdings subsidiary Sompo Care and opened on Wednesday July 19, 2023. The pavilion, children will enable children to act as caregivers. After gaining an understanding of how the elderly who need nursing care feel and learning specialist skills and knowledge, they will participate in nursing care experiences, such as checking sleeping conditions using a sleep sensor, helping a patient move from a bed to a wheelchair, and taking them around the KidZania city in a wheelchair.
Sompo Holdings, Sompo Care, and KCJ GROUP hope that the experiences provided by this pavilion will encourage the children who will be forging the country's future to think about the feelings of others when they act, and that trying out ICT- based caregiving technology will teach them the potential of new caregiving methods and deepen their interest in caregiving as a career.

Sompo Care Inc. launched operation of SOMPO-style Children's Cafeteria from November 2022 in senior residences, including at assisted living homes established nationwide. Creating opportunities for residents and children to interact and making Sompo Care senior residences bases for multigenerational interaction for community residents will make residents lively and happier, and foster further job satisfaction among employees, as well as aim to contribute to social issues encompassing children.
By providing children with new experiences and places through the operation of SOMPO-style Children's Cafeteria, Sompo Care is also taking on the challenge of fostering an aspiration among children by getting them to learn about the job of nursing care while coming into contact with Sompo Care employees.

"Anna-Konna by Sompo care: Find Hints for Dementia Care" received the 2020 GOOD DESIGN AWARD (sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion). Sompo Care offers the website by aiming to offer support to and share its knowledge and expertise with caregivers who provide homecare for the people with Dementia.
"Anna-Konna" introduces ideas and hints of Sompo Care’s staff based on Sompo Care’s unique method for dementia care to aim to solve the problems of the persons who support the member with dementia in their families.
Sompo Care will continue to support people with dementia and those who have problems with dementia care in Japan, a super-aging society, by widely opening specific knowledge and know-how on dementia care to the public.

SOMPO developed "SOMPO Smile Program for Brain & Physical Health" by aiming to prevent cognitive decline by improving the lifestyle of older people under the supervision of The National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology and Professor Kivipelto of Karolinska Institutet. The Program is the world's first nationwide social implementation program as a “FINGER Study-based Dementia prevention program” officially approved by Professor Kivipelto. SOMPO aims to reduce the risk of dementia in Japan by expanding the program all over Japan.

• FINGER Study: An intervention trial on the prevention of cognitive impairment among the elderly, initiated in Finland. The study was the first in the world to indicate that multi-domain intervention with exercise, diet, cognitive training and management of vascular/metabolic risk factors was effective in reducing the risk of cognitive impairment. It was conducted on 1,260 at risk people from the general population.

In order to address various social issues surrounding dementia, Sompo Holdings has been implementing the SOMPO Dementia Support Program since October 2018 as a Group-wide initiative aiming “to build a society that strives to prevent dementia and enables people to continue living long and happy lives with dignity as individuals, even after being diagnosed with dementia.” Through this initiative, Sompo Holdings seeks to realize its Group Management Philosophy, “We will strive to contribute to the security, health, and wellbeing of our customers and society as a whole by providing insurance and related services of the highest quality possible.” Sompo Holdings' Group companies have been marketing products and services such as SOMPO Egao Club Dementia Support Service, which provides checking tools for cognitive capabilities and offers services that help to prevent cognitive decline; Egao Wo Mamoru Dementia Insurance, an insurance product which pays a one-time insurance benefit when the insured is diagnosed with both MCI and dementia ; and Oyako No Chikara, an insurance product that enables people to avoid having to resign from work to provide nursing care to aging parents. Concurrently, Sompo Holdings has been conducting researches on dementia, as well as Dementia awareness and support activities.

Future Care Lab in Japan (the Lab) has the mission statement aiming to re-invent new caregiving businesses through blending technology with human touch.

In collaboration with care companies outside the SOMPO Group, the Lab verifies the care technologies that can be introduced to solve essential problems at care sites, and conducts evaluations of the technologies in actual care settings.

While addressing the issue of supply-demand gap in nursing care personnel, we will contribute to create sustainable nursing care business models that will help realize a sustainable society where the elderly can live peacefully.