Elderly Poverty Series
Singapore
Ploughing on: The faces and insecurities of Singapore’s elderly working poor
The poverty rate has been rising among the working elderly, one study shows. Why do seniors here feel the need to work for ...
Read moreVietnam
Vietnam’s ticking time-bomb of elderly poverty
More are working into old age to survive, in the world’s most rapidly aging country. Will solutions be too little, too late ...
Read moreSouth Korea
Poor and on their own, South Korea’s elderly who will ‘work until they die’
“I will take care of myself as long as I can… then I’ll go to the hospital and die,” says an 81-year-old in a country where ...
Read moreMyanmar
Poverty forces families in Myanmar to ditch their elderly
“The old woman was left in the dark, tainted with faeces and urine,” recalls a social worker, who warns that elderly ...
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