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"The law reforms aim to encourage better care of older people, as China’s elderly population is forecast to more than double over the next 40 years.
Traditionally in China children care for elderly parents at home, rather than having them admitted to an aged care facility. But with the one-child policy still firmly in place, the burden of caring for ageing parents has fallen to sole offspring, making this tradition more difficult to uphold, especially in families where children have moved to the cities in pursuit of work."
China's elderly to sue children for negligence
"With China's elderly population forecast to more than double to 487 million in 40 years, the government needs to limit the cost of caring for seniors.
''China's ageing problem is at a scale and speed not comparable with anywhere else in the world,'' said Yuan Xin, director of Nankai University's ageing development strategy research centre in Tianjin, and a member of an advisory committee on the new rule.
''My concern is how we can have sustainable economic development'' while maintaining Confucian values such as respect and care for one's parents, he said.
Traditionally, children lived with their parents and looked after them according to Confucian beliefs. That relationship has eroded as China's one-child policy has increased the burden on the sole offspring and people have moved to cities in pursuit of jobs.
In response, the government amended the law for the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly in December to include the visitation requirement and a stipulation that employers approve the necessary leave, without specifying how often the visits should be.
The law enables the elderly to seek legal recourse and prohibits ''discrimination, insult, ill-treatment and abandonment'' of the aged. A symbolic ''elderly day'' has been assigned under the legislation.
Besides an effort to preserve tradition, the rules are an economic necessity to limit the state's burden. China's working-age citizens fell as a share of the population last year, and the national committee on ageing estimates the number of people older than 60 will rise from 185 million in 2011 to 487 million by 2053."
"The law reforms aim to encourage better care of older people, as China’s elderly population is forecast to more than double over the next 40 years.
Traditionally in China children care for elderly parents at home, rather than having them admitted to an aged care facility. But with the one-child policy still firmly in place, the burden of caring for ageing parents has fallen to sole offspring, making this tradition more difficult to uphold, especially in families where children have moved to the cities in pursuit of work."
China's elderly to sue children for negligence
"With China's elderly population forecast to more than double to 487 million in 40 years, the government needs to limit the cost of caring for seniors.
''China's ageing problem is at a scale and speed not comparable with anywhere else in the world,'' said Yuan Xin, director of Nankai University's ageing development strategy research centre in Tianjin, and a member of an advisory committee on the new rule.
''My concern is how we can have sustainable economic development'' while maintaining Confucian values such as respect and care for one's parents, he said.
Traditionally, children lived with their parents and looked after them according to Confucian beliefs. That relationship has eroded as China's one-child policy has increased the burden on the sole offspring and people have moved to cities in pursuit of jobs.
In response, the government amended the law for the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly in December to include the visitation requirement and a stipulation that employers approve the necessary leave, without specifying how often the visits should be.
The law enables the elderly to seek legal recourse and prohibits ''discrimination, insult, ill-treatment and abandonment'' of the aged. A symbolic ''elderly day'' has been assigned under the legislation.
Besides an effort to preserve tradition, the rules are an economic necessity to limit the state's burden. China's working-age citizens fell as a share of the population last year, and the national committee on ageing estimates the number of people older than 60 will rise from 185 million in 2011 to 487 million by 2053."
