Chinese premier urges high-quality development of elderly care services
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Chinese premier urges high-quality development of elderly care services

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang presides over a study session held by the State Council in Beijing, capital of China, Aug 26, 2024. Li emphasized the need to actively respond to population aging and promote the high-quality development of elderly care services. BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday emphasized the need to actively respond to population aging and promote the high-quality development of elderly care services. Li stressed the need to develop home and community-based elderly care services, improve the rural elderly care services network, and support local governments in providing mutual-aid elderly care based on actual local conditions. To respond to the care needs of elderly people with disabilities, Li called for efforts to promote the integration of medical and health care with elderly care, increase the supply of nursing home beds, and develop long-term care services.

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China's ageing population fuels 'silver economy' boom, but profits can prove elusive
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China's ageing population fuels 'silver economy' boom, but profits can prove elusive

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HONG KONG: Every Wednesday, retiree Zhang Zhili travels an hour by bus to an education center, drawn by the pulsing rhythms of the African drum she plays there in a classroom filled with fellow retirees whose hands move in unison, every beat lifting her spirits. “To love ourselves.” Many older Chinese are looking beyond traditional nursing homes, afraid of abandonment …

Zhangjiagang's thoughtful services ensure worry-free retirement
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Zhangjiagang's thoughtful services ensure worry-free retirement

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In recent years, Zhangjiagang has been advancing the construction of its elderly care service system, striving to improve service quality to meet the diverse needs of its elderly population. To accommodate them, the city has established 41 elderly care institutions, 264 home-based care service centers, and 49 seniors' canteens, effectively forming a "15-minute elderly care service circle". The city boasts …

Chinese premier urges construction of good housing to better meet people's needs
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Chinese premier urges construction of good housing to better meet people's needs

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday urged efforts to build safe, comfortable, green and smart homes to better meet people's high-quality housing needs. The needs of various groups with different living habits, age ranges and economic capabilities should be taken into consideration — especially new demand in such areas as aging adaptability and child-friendliness — in the construction …

Chinese premier urges construction of good housing to better meet people's needs
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Chinese premier urges construction of good housing to better meet people's needs

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday urged efforts to build safe, comfortable, green and smart homes to better meet people's high-quality housing needs. The needs of various groups with different living habits, age ranges and economic capabilities should be taken into consideration — especially new demand in such areas as aging adaptability and child-friendliness — in the construction …

Cooperation sought to tackle aging
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Cooperation sought to tackle aging

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China is seeking to intensify exchanges in policymaking and technologies with 12 other Asian nations to tackle the shared challenges of aging populations. The cooperation is to be primarily conducted within the existing ASEAN Plus Three framework, known as APT, Civil Affairs Minister Lu Zhiyuan told a forum in Beijing. The APT framework was established in the 1990s among China, …

Cooperation sought to tackle aging
1 month, 1 week ago

Cooperation sought to tackle aging

China Daily  

China is seeking to intensify exchanges in policymaking and technologies with 12 other Asian nations to tackle the shared challenges of aging populations. The cooperation is to be primarily conducted within the existing ASEAN Plus Three framework, known as APT, Civil Affairs Minister Lu Zhiyuan told a forum in Beijing. The APT framework was established in the 1990s among China, …

Cooperation sought to tackle aging
1 month, 1 week ago

Cooperation sought to tackle aging

China Daily  

China is seeking to intensify exchanges in policymaking and technologies with 12 other Asian nations to tackle the shared challenges of aging populations. The cooperation is to be primarily conducted within the existing ASEAN Plus Three framework, known as APT, Civil Affairs Minister Lu Zhiyuan told a forum in Beijing. The APT framework was established in the 1990s among China, …

Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population
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Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population

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A canteen worker provides details about the menu to an elderly man at a community service center in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Aug 22. XU HUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Aging gracefully Almost one-quarter, or 22.1 percent, of elderly people require meal assistance services, making such services a critical aspect of home-based care, according to a Ministry of Civil Affairs survey. Southwest …

Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population
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Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population

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A canteen worker provides details about the menu to an elderly man at a community service center in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Aug 22. XU HUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Aging gracefully Almost one-quarter, or 22.1 percent, of elderly people require meal assistance services, making such services a critical aspect of home-based care, according to a Ministry of Civil Affairs survey. Southwest …

Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population
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Canteens for seniors feed demands of aging population

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A canteen worker provides details about the menu to an elderly man at a community service center in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on Aug 22. XU HUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Aging gracefully Almost one-quarter, or 22.1 percent, of elderly people require meal assistance services, making such services a critical aspect of home-based care, according to a Ministry of Civil Affairs survey. Southwest …

Govts tackling population aging problems one at a time
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Govts tackling population aging problems one at a time

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A woman plays the piano in a room of a senior-care apartment in Qujing, Yunnan province, in July. A media report last month said the number of Beijing residents aged 60 or above had reached 4.31 million by the end of last year, making up 30.2 percent of the capital's registered permanent residents. The Chinese tradition of respecting and supporting …

Officials strive for quality elder care
2 months ago

Officials strive for quality elder care

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An undated photo shows an elderly woman dining at a nursing home in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Li Yongxin, deputy director of the elder care service department at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said during a news conference that the number of elderly care facilities in China had surged to around 410,000 by June, with 369,000 of them community-based. …

Officials strive for quality elder care
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Officials strive for quality elder care

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By LI LEI | China Daily | Updated: 2024-10-22 10:02 An undated photo shows an elderly woman dining at a nursing home in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Li Yongxin, deputy director of the elder care service department at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said during a news conference that the number of elderly care facilities in China had surged …

China works to provide quality elderly care services: officials
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China works to provide quality elderly care services: officials

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Senior residents of the Shenzhen Elderly Care Nursing Home use the interactive rehabilitation training system to exercise. China will build an elderly-friendly society by improving its social security system, elderly care services and health supports, Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan has said, noting that an elderly care services system with distinctive Chinese features is expected to become well-developed and …

Authorities mull law for ailing seniors
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Authorities mull law for ailing seniors

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China is planning to establish a legal framework to boost elderly care targeting seniors with disabilities to meet surging demands in a rapidly aging society, said Lu Zhiyuan, minister of civil affairs. Meanwhile, nearly 3.67 million older adults who live alone and have severe diseases, disabilities or other difficulties can now receive stable assistance and support from the government, and …

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves
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China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves

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BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have decided to launch a campaign for 2024-2027, aiming to improve necessary medical and health services for the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves. A circular has been issued requiring eligible medical and health institutions, principally grassroots institutions, as well as nurseries and …

Aging population spurs spate of new caring professions
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Aging population spurs spate of new caring professions

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Photo taken with a mobile phone shows a senior resident getting into a "Bath Express" vehicle with the help of bath assistants in Southwest China's Chongqing, Sept 27, 2022. With the number of elderly people rising, China is witnessing an increase in the number of new professions in the expanding elderly care sector. In Shanghai, which has one of the …

Shandong to ramp up support for elderly-friendly communities
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Shandong to ramp up support for elderly-friendly communities

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Shandong province has recently released comprehensive guidelines to foster elderly-friendly communities across the province. The guideline sets ambitious goals, aiming to create 300 national model elderly-friendly communities by 2025 and achieve full coverage of elderly-friendly communities by 2035. They also encourage professional elderly care institutions to extend their services to homes and communities. Furthermore, the guidelines emphasize the importance of …

Guideline promotes rural elderly care
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Guideline promotes rural elderly care

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Role of villages Liu Nina, an associate professor at North China Electric Power University, said one of the highlights of the guideline is its recommendation of village-based entities such as mutual-support stations and happiness homes. According to media reports, more than 1,000 "rural mutual support elderly care stations" have been established in Jiangsu province, and Shandong province has set up …

Guideline promotes rural elderly care
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Guideline promotes rural elderly care

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China has issued its first national-level guideline to specifically address the need for elderly care in rural areas as the country strives to cope with its rapidly aging population. According to the seventh national population census conducted in 2020, more than 120 million people age 60 and older live in the countryside, accounting for 23.81 percent of the nation's rural …

Guideline promotes rural elderly care
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Guideline promotes rural elderly care

China Daily  

China has issued its first national-level guideline to specifically address the need for elderly care in rural areas as the country strives to cope with its rapidly aging population. According to the seventh national population census conducted in 2020, more than 120 million people age 60 and older live in the countryside, accounting for 23.81 percent of the nation's rural …

Guideline promotes rural elderly care
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Guideline promotes rural elderly care

China Daily  

China has issued its first national-level guideline to specifically address the need for elderly care in rural areas as the country strives to cope with its rapidly aging population. According to the seventh national population census conducted in 2020, more than 120 million people age 60 and older live in the countryside, accounting for 23.81 percent of the nation's rural …

China's elderly care industry faces promising future and challenges
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China's elderly care industry faces promising future and challenges

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LI MIN/CHINA DAILY China's elderly care industry holds great promise, but its challenges can't be overlooked, experts from aging research institutions and elderly care providers said in Beijing on Friday. Aging and elderly care services are gaining increasing attention in China, but many companies are struggling to survive and find it difficult to be profitable, said Li Jia, deputy head …

Qingdao to optimize elderly care services
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Qingdao to optimize elderly care services

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People dine in a community canteen in Qingdao in East China's Shandong province. The proportion of elderly among the general population reached 23 percent, creating high demand for elderly care services. At the end of last December, the local government issued guidelines for promoting the introduction of basic elderly care services, and supporting policies on further promoting home-based aging-friendly renovations …

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly
11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

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With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly
11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily  

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

New efforts and better services good for eldercare
11 months, 2 weeks ago

New efforts and better services good for eldercare

China Daily  

Our community service center released a notice on its WeChat account recently, informing those above the age of 80 to apply for an emergency call device at home. Although still "too young" to be eligible for the free service, I welcome the move by the Beijing local authorities to ensure the elderly people receive better old-age care services. Shifting to …

Forum discusses challenges, opportunities of aging China
1 year, 2 months ago

Forum discusses challenges, opportunities of aging China

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Dignitaries engage in discussions. Experts offered their insights and solutions to tackle China's growing aging population, addressing the existing challenges in elderly care at a forum in Shaanxi province on Sunday. “The question is how to transform this problem into an opportunity and a driving force.” Just a day before the Double Ninth Festival celebrated for elderly people, the forum …

China to make elderly care, domestic service sectors more standardized
1 year, 10 months ago

China to make elderly care, domestic service sectors more standardized

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BEIJING, Feb. 2 -- Chinese authorities have issued a special action plan to improve the standardization of elderly care and domestic services to meet the growing market demand for elderly services and enhance the quality and scale of the home service sector. To improve the supply structure of elderly care and home services, the standard-setting work will focus on supporting …

Life made easier for frail seniors
2 years, 1 month ago

Life made easier for frail seniors

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Rising population Chang Hao, a care manager or "nursing housekeeper", accompanies 92-year-old Mu Kunlai to a pre-surgery checkup at the hospital in preparation for eye surgery in Beijing, Sept 28, 2022. To address the aging population, the State Council has released a development plan for China's elderly care services during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The plan specifies major goals …

Aged people need special care amid pandemic
2 years, 7 months ago

Aged people need special care amid pandemic

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Medical workers help an elder use QR code for nucleic acid test at a community in Shanghai, April 9, 2022. In China, however, the impact of the pandemic has been disproportionately severe on the elderly people due to the rising aging population in the country. China has about 264 million people aged 60 or above and 191 million aged 65 …

Aged people need special care amid pandemic
2 years, 7 months ago

Aged people need special care amid pandemic

China Daily  

Medical workers help an elder use QR code for nucleic acid test at a community in Shanghai, April 9, 2022. In China, however, the impact of the pandemic has been disproportionately severe on the elderly people due to the rising aging population in the country. China has about 264 million people aged 60 or above and 191 million aged 65 …

Government pledges to expand elder services
3 years, 3 months ago

Government pledges to expand elder services

China Daily  

The central government has earmarked 27.1 billion yuan to develop senior care facilities and services between 2012 and last year, the Minister of Civil Affairs Li Jiheng said on Friday. However, increased migration – one in every four Chinese were classified as migrants, census data showed – means large number of seniors are "empty-nesters" living away from their adult children. …

Shandong strives to ease life for seniors
3 years, 5 months ago

Shandong strives to ease life for seniors

China Daily  

As the province with the highest number of people aged 60 and older, Shandong has developed a series of supportive services to make life for older adults easier and more convenient. The health code verification system jointly developed by Jinan airport, the city's health commission and big data bureau is able to read health codes automatically after passengers swipe their …

Tai'an makes strides in improving quality of life for residents
4 years ago

Tai'an makes strides in improving quality of life for residents

China Daily  

The city of Tai'an in East China's Shandong province has made significant progress in improving the quality of life of its residents during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, local authorities reported. The subsistence allowances for urban and rural residents increased by 44.2 percent and 92.4 percent per person per month, respectively, and a temporary assistance system has been established with …

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