HOUSTON: The Supreme Court ruling this week on the liability of the family of a 91-year-old dementia patient fatally hit by a train after wandering onto the railway tracks in 2007 should lead us once again to think who should bear — and how society should share — the burden of caring for the expanding ranks of the elderly requiring nursing in this rapidly aging country.
The man in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, who was suffering from a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared from his home while his 85-year-old wife was taking a brief nap…..