An elderly woman accompanied her daughter tries walking with a stick amid a field mustard after dismounting her wheelchair at a park in Tokyo, Japan.
PERAK is the state with the highest number of senior citizens in Malaysia. The silver state which boasts 274,006 senior citizens in its record has towns or villages dominated by the elderly.
One of the reasons is many youngsters had started migrating to big cities like Kuala Lumpur since the 1980s for jobs and business opportunities.
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