Senior Affair Magazine

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

WE MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR ELDERLY WORLDWIDE: " Japan’s elderly turn to life of crime to ease cost of living"

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"The social situation in Japan has forced the elderly into the need to commit crime," he says. "The ratio of people who receive public assistance is highest since the end of the war. About 40 per cent of the elderly live alone. It's a vicious circle. They leave prison, they don't have money or family so they turn immediately to crime."
The crime figures, he adds, expose..."


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/27/japans-elderly-turn-to-life-of-crime-to-ease-cost-of-living.html

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