Crime by elderly on the rise in ageing Japan: govt [View All]

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Crime by elderly Japanese has doubled over the past five years and is likely to keep increasing, posing a serious challenge to one of the world's most rapidly aging societies, a government report said on Friday.

Factors ranging from lower income and loneliness to an unstable living environment have helped push up crime by those aged 65 or over, and the number of such crimes is growing faster than the elderly population itself, the report added.

"The issue of elderly offenders poses a big problem that our society must be burdened with," the annual report on crime by the justice ministry said.

"As the generation of baby boomers becomes elderly within five years, we are at a stage where we must have a fundamental review on how to prevent crime in a clearly aging society."



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Mods, this was not posted as an attempt to be funny. This is a heartbreaking problem, and one that I think we are going to be seeing in our own society before too long...

We have a whole generation of boomers who are about to retire with no money in the middle of an economic crisis...