China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer’s Problem

SHANGHAI — Last year, an expensive, red-brick residential complex opened here, equipped with a hair salon, cinema, toy-cluttered game rooms and a karaoke suite offering the latest in pop music.

The Vanishing Mind

A Difficult Road Ahead

Articles in this series are examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer’s disease.

Qilai Shen for The New York Times

Qiu Jinzhen, who is suffering from dementia, at the nursing home in Shanghai.

The residents are not Chinese yuppies. They are older patients with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia in a nursing home that is on the forefront of a new effort by China to deal with its exploding elderly population. Continue

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