China Senior Housing and Care
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Last month, Shanghai has just gone through terrible hot weather that broke the history record of high temperature 140 years ago. There were people dying from the heat, in particular the seniors—one report said that a senior, who didn’t turn on the air-conditioning when staying at home, suffered a heatstroke and died soon after she was escorted to the hospital but turned out being too later. It raises ponder to me on two things: many elderly people are left alone at home during the daytime—they need care, physically and spiritually. The problem is how. And, elderly people are “penny-pincher” to themselves that they will usually save electricity fees by turning off air-conditioning. I say this without any dis-respect to those seniors, as I see and understand them who are near or older than my parents’ age, and who have witnessed and gone through the rapid economic growth in recent decades but something embedded in their body is unchanged. But the question then comes to how to encourage seniors to spend more money. As the senior care industry getting exciting, it worth mentioning the importance of exploring the senior’s behavior and what they are really thinking, as well as their real needs, which actually they might not be aware of.
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