An old man in northeast China who needed a lift up to his apartment on the 5th floor of a lift-less building decided to take ...

The monthly salary is 1,800 to 3,500 yuan for four or five days a week, and four to eight hours a day. "The largest group we serve are elderly people who are at a relatively young age and 'blue ...

Mao was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison and fined 100,000 yuan (US$14,000). Judge Yu Huohai noted the harsher sentence was due to Mao targeting an elderly person. Tang, who lives alone ...

She invested more than 800,000 yuan (about $112,000 ... are meanwhile being transformed into care facilities for older people. Government efforts to back the silver economy are paying off ...

Ms Peng was not fully conscious after the one-hour ordeal at the bank and could be seen leaning her head to one side.

Twenty elderly people lost their lives in a fire at a nursing ... resulting in casualties and a direct economic loss of more than 43.52 million yuan (USD 5.9 million), the Post report said.

There are cheaper old age homes where an elderly person can get a bed in a dormitory-like room for a few thousand yuan a month. But one may have to wait in a long line to get a bed in such centers ...

Yuan Xin, a sociologist with the Tianjin-based ... Besides, Chinese traditionally value family life and elderly people tend to feel abandoned when they have to move out," he said.