{"id":553,"date":"2011-04-11T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=553"},"modified":"2011-07-09T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:51:48","slug":"retirement-village-growing-old-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/04\/11\/retirement-village-growing-old-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement village: Growing old in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not just Western societies that are going grey. Developing countries are ageing even faster than developed societies, says a United Nations study. Taking care of the elderly is becoming a global problem, says reporter Danwei Zhang.<br \/>\nLiu Ye, 60, is a single mother living in Shenyang, a city in northern China.<br \/>\nHer only daughter lives far away, working for a consultancy in Shanghai.<br \/>\nThe distance is a worry for Ms Liu (who does not want her real name to be used). As she gets older and nears retirement, taking care of herself will get more difficult, she says. Moving to Shanghai is not an option; the city is far too expensive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesdaily-online.com\/news\/special-report\/9991-retirement-village-growing-old-in-china\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not just Western societies that are going grey. Developing countries are ageing even faster than developed societies, says a United Nations study. Taking care of the elderly is becoming a global problem, says reporter Danwei Zhang. Liu Ye, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2011\/04\/11\/retirement-village-growing-old-in-china\/\">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":[40871],"tags":[97090,40861,43260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}