2024-06-11
24 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is round table.
At the end of 2023, China had nearly 300 million people aged 60 and above, and that number is expected to increase to 400 million in the next ten years.
The supply of elderly care services in various shapes and forms affects almost every family and ultimately everyone in this country.
Hello, I'm Lai Ming, and this is roundtable.
Today, with Neil Hauling and Brandon Yates, we introduce experimental initiatives in east China's Zhejiang province, which seeks to inject a dose of youthful vigor into elderly care institutions.
And by youthful, youthful vigor, I don't mean it, you know, metaphorically, we are actually talking about some experiments in Zhejiang province, in different parts of the province, actually, where they have started pilot program to introduce young residents into nursing homes, where mostly elderly people would dwell.
Yes, we're calling it intergenerational cohabitation, elderly care mode.
Under this mode, young people can choose to live in the elderly nursing homes.
To live with elderly people, they need to pay a rent of 1000 yuan a month, which is around $140.
Not a lot of money.
Not at all.
And I must say that my building in Xi Jin Shan kind of feels like that.
I think I'm the only young person in the whole building.
And you pay more than that.
Exactly.
You're paying more than that.
A lot more.
So I think I'm not getting the best part of this deal, unfortunately, because.
You are not doing what they're doing, which is providing at least 10 hours of volunteer service every month.