“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 1/20/15:
From NPR:
“A decade from now, about 2025, experts predict that China’s population will peak — reaching as high as 1.4 billion — and begin to steadily decline. Some of them are predicting that a shrinking, aging population could lead to a national crisis. One way to peer into the future is to visit a county in eastern China that pioneered population controls a decade before the rest of the country — and is now feeling their impact.” See what’s happening right now in one county.
From the Seattle Times:
“Facing a rapidly aging population and inadequate infrastructure to meet the projected needs, the Chinese government a few years ago began cutting red tape and costs in an effort to get foreign companies with expertise in the field to open senior-care facilities in the country.” Learn more here about how Seattle-based companies such as Cascade Healthcare and Merrill Gardens are importing the West’s idea of senior care to China.
