Single-child families to get hand taking care of elders
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China will explore a new program designed to ease the burden of senior care in single-child families, a health publication reported yesterday.
Nursing, health care, companion and first-aid services will be provided through a pilot program launched by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Health News reported. Priority will be given to single-child families with financial difficulties and bedridden seniors.
The experimental program will involve 37 communities and organizations.
Meanwhile, the program will also explore new techniques to procure government services, foster old-age care enterprises and facilities that run on-demand and customized catering, cleaning, bathing and medical services.
China鈥檚 family planning policy was first introduced in the late 1970s to rein in the surging population by limiting most urban couples to one child. Many earlier restrictions have been relaxed over recent years.
Senior citizens in China has been traditionally taken care of by their children. This practice posed little concern when most families had more than one child.
However, many of China鈥檚 first generation of single children are struggling to both raise their own children and take care of their parents without support from siblings.
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