Restaurant staffed by Alzheimer patients opens in Tianjin

“The restaurant is not aiming at gaining profits, but aiming at providing treatment for them and enhancing their social ability with fun and respect,” said Fang Kejia, Hetong Elderly Care Group president.

The five-table, 20-seat restaurant serves only reserved tables, and Fang said the group will further research on how to run the establishment, which serves dumplings, appetizers and fruit.

“We will only open it in the mid-noon, or may only open a few days a week.”

Zhang Wenli, 25, a teacher at Tianjin Peijie Middle School and the restaurant’s first customer, said she heard of the opening on a micro blog.

She came here to see the patients with her mother and plans to take her students to come to the home to care for the elderly patients.