As population grays, the burden of care weighs on families
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As population grays, the burden of care weighs on families

China Daily  

In Heyue Senior Living, a care home in western Beijing, new residents announced their advanced ages and illustrious former careers to applause from a crowded hall, before tucking into a candle-decorated cake and dancing. Not enough caregivers Bei Wu, a professor at New York University who has researched aging in China since the 1980s, says high fees and poor staffing push away potential residents. Yang Wei, an engineer from Hebei province, says his grandfather, who is nearly 90, had wanted to try out a care home to reduce the stress on his family after a bad fall. Nie and her husband each get 800 yuan a month from the state-about two-thirds the cost of a care home near where they live in a village outside Beijing.

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