Beijing Review

Homely Care

The core spirit of Spring Festival has always been going back home for the grand family reunion. However, the Zhuang family in Beijing is considering celebrating the festival in a nursing home.

Zhuang Jianping, 66, is unable to look after his mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. She stays at the Huafang Care Center, a nursing home for the elderly in the capital.

In 2019, the mother, in her 90s, went to her daughter’s apartment to celebrate the Lunar New Year but fell and broke

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