Shanghai to improve care for its aged
By Wang Hongyi | China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-02 07:58
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A worker helps 102-year-old Yang Sanbao wash her arms in Shanghai Gaodong Nursing Home last year. The city aims to provide more nursing facilities to cover more elderly people in the following years. Provided to China Daily |
SHANGHAI - The city plans to add 5,000 beds in nursing homes this year to relieve a shortage and about 270,000 elderly people are to benefit from community- based care services.
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