Korat, Thailand, Jun 18, 2013 / 15:07 pm
A new home for the elderly in Thailand will seek to restore respect for senior citizens and to fight the escalating problems of elderly abandonment and suicide in the country.
Bishop Joseph Chusak Sirisut of Nakhon Ratchasima told CNA that there is an absence of "social care centers for the elders in this whole region."
Construction has begun on a new home for the elderly in Korat, its foundational stone laid under the patronage of Bishop Sirisut and Fr. Paul Cherdchai Lertjitlekha, provincial superior and president of the St. Camillus Foundation Thailand.
Fr. Lertjitlekha explained that the effort is not seeking to encourage children to "abandon their elders" to nursing homes.