Thailand struggles to care for its elderly

Bangkok

AS he wheels his 77-year-old aunt away from Bangkok's first day centre for the elderly, Nakhon Thianprasert 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.