The elderly need proper help

Transforming a hotel into a nursing home is a welcome move for the benefit of senior citizens, elderly care centers and society as a whole. More such decisions need to be taken for the healthy development of the elderly care sector, says an article in Guangzhou Daily. Excerpts:

A three-star hotel in the Hongkou district of Shanghai has reportedly been turned into an old age home to cash in on the rising demand for elderly care. The average monthly charge person of almost 5,000 yuan ($813), however, is not what many people in China can afford to pay.

Indeed, the fast rising aging population in China poses a problem. But to deal with it we have to first focus on some key issues, for which we can learn from some developed societies that already have quite a high proportion of aged people.