Elderly

9 Jun 2013

A country's population is its fate, 19th century philosopher Auguste Comte observed. He was referring to his post-revolutionary France, but he could well have been offering sage advice to Chinese...

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Underdiagnosis of hypertension reveals bigger health system gap in China, experts say

2 Jun 2013

Xiao Mingying, 64, a retired worker in Shanghai, is among the 100 million old people on the mainland who have high blood pressure.

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Husband dies after mentally ill wife fails to get help

3 Apr 2013

The man, who slipped in the bathroom and hit his head, died from blood loss, officers believe. His 77-year-old wife had not drunk or eaten anything for the two days when police found her.

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Give elderly offenders a chance

31 Mar 2013

The Civic Exchange think tank reported last month that far more elderly people are getting into trouble with the police. Between 1991 and 2011, there was a sixfold increase in arrests of women...

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Glitch delays old-age allowance payments to elderly

30 Mar 2013

A problem in government computer records may mean some elderly residents eligible for the new old-age allowance will not receive the money next week as promised. Meanwhile, thousands of people who...

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Letters to the Editor, March 29, 2013

29 Mar 2013

How sad that police chief superintendent Eddie Wong Kwok-wai, of the police public relations branch, should think it a fruitful use of police time to chase otherwise law-abiding citizens who ride...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Elderly need more protection

Like financial hardship, abuse of the elderly is a serious problem that needs to be tackled.

3:11AM

Elderly forced to queue at 2am for dental care, concern group claims

It's a long and painful wait and they don't get much sleep, but elderly people still queue up in the early hours of the morning at one of the few government dental clinics in the city.

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An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

If two different forecasts made by our statisticians over the space of just two years can barely get within half a million people of each other for the year 2039 and entirely ignore an external...

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Poverty in old age a future we must avert

A new report by HSBC estimates that most people will spend 18 years in retirement, but says they have enough savings to fund only 10 of those years in comfort. It paints a grim picture of elderly...

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SOUTH KOREA

Coming clean on growing number of lonely deaths in South Korea

In a country where the unravelling of Confucian traditions means that many elderly people are no longer cared for by family, more South Koreans are dying in solitude, after either taking their own...

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Over 60pc of workers in elderly care facilities attacked by patients

Over 60 per cent of workers in elderly care facilities have been attacked by elderly residents during the course of their duties, according to a recent survey.

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