Childless seniors get help

Beijing nursing home to offer services tailored to consider feelings of those who lost an only child

Beijing will create a special nursing home to care for senior citizens who lost their only child and will provide targeted services for them that researchers said should take their emotional feelings into consideration.

The No 5 Welfare Nursing Home was chosen as a pilot project to receive those seniors who become childless after their only child died because of disease or accident, the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau said on Saturday.