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Previous year, an exclusive, red-brick residential complex started here, outfitted with a hair salon, cinema, toy-cluttered game rooms and a karaoke suite proposing the most recent pop music.

The inhabitants are not Chinese yuppies. They are elder patients with Alzheimer's disease or dementia in a hospital that is at the front position of a fresh attempt by China to cope with its blasting elderly residents.

This is the finest place we can imagine as expressed by Mr. Miao Yuqiang, a 49-year-old Shanghai bus driver who assists his 81-year-old mother enroll in the house. By the time we explored this nursing home, we were very anxious.

Although lot of nations are under pressure to deal with faster-ageing citizens and in China there are predictions that there shall be around 400 million citizens crossing the age of 60 in 3 decades and, fairly since the 1 kid policy, a decreased number of working-age citizens to be concern for them.