Filial piety has been at the core of China’s elderly care system for centuries, but as society rapidly changes, new avenues are being explored to help make sure the country’s elderly are taken care of in their twilight years.
A husband and wife in their eighties were talked into transferring their flat in China over to their family who then refused to let them live in it, making them homeless and forcing them to seek legal representation.
An elderly woman in China has left all her money and property to the cherished cats and dogs who have kept her company in old age, but nothing to her adult children who have been nowhere to be seen.
When Harbin University for the Aged, in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, introduced its new curriculum that included the popular karaoke singing, classes were snapped up by eager students.