Tag: Elder Care

Deaths of Seniors in Hospital Fire Point to China’s Elder Care Shortfall

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BEIJING — The hospital in southern Beijing advertised itself as specializing in vascular tumors, especially benign birthmarks that often appear in infants. But when a fire broke out there last month, killing at least 29 people, many of the victims had been there for another reason: They were older people with disabilities receiving nursing care, some of them staying at the private hospital for months or even years, even though it was not licensed as a provider of long-term elder care. The tragedy at Changfeng Hospital — the deadliest fire…

Covid Outbreak at Shanghai Hospital Exposes Risks to China’s Seniors

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A coronavirus outbreak is ravaging a hospital in Shanghai for older adults, underscoring the difficulties officials have had in containing infections even as the city imposed a 10-day staggered lockdown. Two orderlies at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care Hospital said in interviews that the coronavirus was spreading widely among the mostly older patients in the facility, and that people had died on each of the past three days. The two, who declined to be named for fear of losing their jobs, said that on a recent night they had been…