{"id":550,"date":"2011-01-12T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=550"},"modified":"2011-07-09T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:33:35","slug":"china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/01\/12\/china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer\u2019s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>The Vanishing Mind<\/h3>\n<p><em>A Difficult Road Ahead<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Articles in this series are examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/series\/the_vanishing_mind\/index.html\">Previous Articles in the Series \u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a>Enlarge This Image<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/13SHANGHAI2\/13SHANGHAI2-articleInline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<h6>Qilai Shen for The New York Times<\/h6>\n<p>Qiu Jinzhen, who is suffering from dementia, at the nursing home in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The residents are not Chinese yuppies. They are older patients with <a title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Alzheimer's Disease.\" href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/disease\/alzheimers-disease\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a> or <a title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Dementia.\" href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/disease\/dementia\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">dementia<\/a> in a nursing home that is on the forefront of a new effort by <a title=\"More news and information about China.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/china\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">China<\/a> to deal with its exploding elderly population. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/asia\/13shanghai.html?_r=2&amp;ref=global-home\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The Vanishing Mind A Difficult Road Ahead Articles in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/01\/12\/china-in-a-shift-takes-on-its-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-problem-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41262,40871,40875],"tags":[42120,97090,40861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"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\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}