A New Home Away From Home: Novel ways to care for China’s army of empty-nesters.

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Sujie Zhu

(News Week) In China—where Confucian tradition and the communist Constitution still require sons and daughters to look after their parents—adult children risk losing face if they allow strangers to do the job. Yet mass migration and the one-child policy mean that more than half of China’s elderly city dwellers are now empty-nesters. And often it’s impossible for those who need it to find professional help. While 48.5 percent of aged urbanites surveyed by the China National Committee on Aging (CNCA) last year expressed a need for home nursing, only 16 percent said they had access to such services. And those few willing to live in institutions were hard-pressed to find adequate space. Continue reading →

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Studies Find Increasing Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease in Beijing, China

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Hong Zhang

From Medscape Medical News

March 28, 2008 (Orlando, Florida) — The prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in Beijing, China has increased over a recent 10-year period, according to data from 2 studies. This was a time of large changes in lifestyle, according to Ge (Gail) Li, MD, from the University of Washington, in Seattle, who reported these findings in a talk on Innovative Research in Cross-Cultural Geropsychiatry here at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 21st Annual Meeting.

Alzheimer’s disease, which increases dramatically with age, is becoming more common worldwide and has become more of a problem for developing countries, said Dr. Li. Census data from China from 1990 to 2000 revealed an aging population with, during this decade, a 27% increase in the number of people who are age 65 years and older, she noted.

Dr. Li presented data from 2 studies done 10 years apart (1986 to 1989 and 1997 to 1999) using identical methods and looking at the same residential area of Beijing. The first study (study 1) was part of her PhD thesis, before she left China to go to the United States, and the second study (study 2) was carried out by colleagues in China. Continue reading →

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老人告子女不养老女儿搬家

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Hong Zhang

2008-03-12 11:06:57　来源: 城市晚报

核心提示：王德宽因为赡养费一事将四个子女告上了法庭，法庭判子女们每人每月给他126.44元钱的赡养费。然而，没过多久，孩子们不再给老人养老费，3个女儿陆续搬家。

城市晚报3月12日报道 王德宽今年63岁，患有白内障，眼睛几近失明。2005年，王德宽因为和儿女闹矛盾，赌气离家出走。在外面流浪了半年多的时间后，长春市绿园区民丰村至爱老年医疗护理院院长收留了他。在老年护理院安顿下来后，王德宽因为赡养费一事将四个子女告上了法庭，法庭判子女们每人每月给他126.44元钱的赡养费。然而，没过多久，孩子们不再给老人养老费，记者近日对此事进行了采访。 Continue reading →

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