Beijing’s Chaoyang district added more than 1,000 beds for the elderly each year in the past five years. The total number of nursing beds has increased to 15,891 and is expected to reach 18,000 by the end of 2015.

In 2003 the then Hong Kong government decided to help the elderly who were looking for aplace in subsidized care (nursing) homes. It allowed developers to waive land premiums if theplot of land was used to build elderly care homes. Its intentions were good.

China has further opened its health service sector by allowing more overseas investors to set up hospitals and streamlining approval procedures for health-related institutions.

When looking at retirement options for a loved one, as a caregiver it may be up to you to help make the proper decisions. There are many senior care facilities, as well as a variety of options.

The number of Chinese senior citizens is expected to skyrocket from the current 185 million to 487 million, or 35 percent of the population, by 2053, according to the China National Committee On Aging.

BEIJING -- The Chinese government has released a guideline on enhancing senior care services for people aged 60 and older.

Suzhou will build a municipal activity center for seniors that is expected to open in 2015. The center covers over 3,000 square meters in total.

Many favorable policies for the silver industry are released and the market grows rapidly in 2013. It is forecasted by relevant people in the industry that 2014 will be a year of explosive industry growth due to step-by-step implementation of different policies for supporting the elderly and continuous launch of new projects into the market. And as a result of the implementation of more favorable policies, huge market potentials will be generated against the ageing issue and huge market demands will rise in many areas of the silver industry.

Private nursing homes will play a major role in serving the graying society in Beijing, according to Li Hongbing, the capital's deputy director of civil affairs.

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Lola Wang, a 28-year-old marketing officer in Shanghai, makes a six-hour trip to Shandong province in eastern China to see her parents twice a year -- once during the Lunar New Year and again during the National Day holiday in October.

BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- As those of the post-1980 generation become the main breadwinners in China, one of the biggest questions is how the country will be able to support old people, who account for an ever growing proportion of the population

About 30 percent of children and elderly people in China will receive traditional therapies as part of the public healthcare service this year, a senior health official said Tuesday.

China will complete a network for the care of its elderly people by 2020, when the group is expected to reach 243 million, according to a government plan unveiled on Friday.

TOKYO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government said Sunday that population of elders aged above 65 hit a record high at 31.86 million as of Sunday, a 1.12 million increase from a year earlier, marking that one in four people in the country are aged over 65, according local media.

BEIJING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- For 71-year-old Li Yuzhen, a life taking care of a sick husband and a mentally-disabled son in their two-bedroom apartment in the east China city of Hefei has not been easy.