Japan: The world's oldest population

I had not considered the elderly caring for each other in the Japan question. It seems more prevalent than caregivers from the middle-age "Sandwich Generation," since elderly women there are more likely to live in poverty than those in peer nations.

A comment on "Squeezed in the middle in super-ageing Japan" (Elstrom, Higuchi, and Shirahama)

​Original comment posted on the approximate date above.

Seniors playing Duck/Duck/Goose (Credit: "Energetic Seniors" by MShades | CC BY 2.0)

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her writings and commentaries, including the one on "Squeezed in the middle in super-ageing Japan" by Elstrom et. al, at landturn.com/blog.

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