Tag: old age

Grey zone: who will care for Thailand’s elderly?

by Sally Mairs BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — As he wheels his 77-year-old aunt away from Bangkok’s first day centre for the elderly, Nakhon reflects on the familial duties that oblige him to juggle night-shift work and care for his ageing relative. It is an increasingly common predicament in rapidly greying Thailand, where a demographic shift is straining social mores and threatening upheaval for the economy. https://youtu.be/M6Ey8wLfYH4   “She raised me when I was little so now […]