Offering visiting services, attracting private investment and setting up mutual help systems in neighborhoods are new ways of providing for the aged in China, the "People's Daily" reports.

Last Friday I had the pleasure of touring Cheerful Court, one of the two model eldercare facilities in Hong Kong operated by the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS).

China's ageing population puts stress on families and people who provide healthcare services, report Jiang Xueqing and Duan Yan in Beijing.

Tens of millions of Chinese families are struggling to take care of their elderly relatives, according to a recent report in Health News, a newspaper affiliated with the Ministry of Health (MOH).

Bangkok (The Nation/ANN) - The Thai government is pondering adopting certain features of the Japanese social security scheme, especially additional care for senior citizens, Public Health Minister Pradit Sinthawanarong said yesterday.

SHANGHAI, March 29 (Xinhua) -- One in four Shanghai residents is now over 60 years old, indicating an aging population in the eastern Chinese metropolis, demographic statistics have shown.

China will nearly double its pension insurance coverage by the end of 2015 to address the problem of a rapidly aging population, a senior social security official said Wednesday.

A 40 percent detection rate for the first stage of mental illness is set out in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) but a lack of standard procedures means this will be difficult to meet, Kong Lingzhi, deputy director of the bureau of disease control and prevention at the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday, World Mental Health Day.

Local governments in China will be required to regulate the cost of services in elderly care institutions, according to a draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly.