{"id":418,"date":"2011-01-21T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:02:03","slug":"china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/01\/21\/china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer\u2019s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/13SHANGHAI1\/13SHANGHAI1-articleLarge.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Qilai Shen for The New York Times<\/div>\n<p>A recreation room at the Shanghai No. 3 Elderly Home, which cares for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease or dementia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6>By DAVID BARBOZA<\/h6>\n<p>(New York Times) SHANGHAI \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>The residents are not Chinese yuppies. They are older patients with Alzheimer\u2019s 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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the best place we could imagine,\u201d says Miao Yuqiang, a  49-year-old Shanghai bus driver who helped his 81-year-old mother enroll  here. \u201cBy the time we found this nursing home, we were desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many countries are struggling to cope with rapidly aging  populations, in China there are forecasts that within three decades  there could be nearly 400 million people over the age of 60 and, partly  because of the one-child policy, a declining number of working-age  people to care for them.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the difficult road ahead, China is beginning to educate the  public and the medical community about dementia, and big cities are  making plans to build new facilities, like the Shanghai No. 3 Elderly  Home.<\/p>\n<p>Continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/asia\/13shanghai.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/asia\/13shanghai.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qilai Shen for The New York Times A recreation room at the Shanghai No. 3 Elderly Home, which cares for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease or dementia. By DAVID BARBOZA (New York Times) SHANGHAI \u2014 Last year, an expensive, red-brick residential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/01\/21\/china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40871,40875],"tags":[42120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}