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life.Cost aside, caring for the elderly is a major challenge for Japan's stretched social services. According to a report this week, the number of households receiving welfare, which include family members aged 65 or over, stood at more than 678,000, or about 40% of the total. The country is also tackling a rise in the number of people who die alone, most of whom are elderly. In 2010, 4.6 million elderly people lived alone MBT Outlet Store, and the number who died at home soared 61% between 2003 and 2010, from 1,364 to 2,194, according to the bureau of social welfare and public health in Tokyo.The government is planning to reduce welfare expenditure in its next budget, due to go into force this April, with details of the cuts expected within days.Aso, who has a propensity for verbal blunders, later attempted to clarify his comments. He acknowledged his language had been inappropriate in a public forum and insisted he was talking only about his personal preference.I said what I personally believe, not what the end-of-life medical care system should be, he told reporters. It is important that you be able spend the final days of your life peacefully.It is not the first time Aso, one of Japan's wealthiest politicians, has questioned the state's duty towards its large elderly population. In 2008, while serving as prime minister, he described doddering pensioners as tax burdens who should take better care of their health MBT Shoes.I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor, he said at a meeting of economists. Why should I have to pay for people who just eat and drink and make no effort? I walk every day and do other things, but I'm paying more in taxes.He had already angered the country's doctors by telling them they lacked common sense, made a joke about Alzheimer's patients Supra Footwear, and pronounced penniless young men unfit for marriage.In 2001, he said he wanted Japan to become the kind of successful country in which the richest Jews would want to live.
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