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Call for change at city’s day care centers
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DAY care centers for the elderly that prove unpopular should be converted into nursing homes, a political adviser to the government was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Morning Post yesterday.
Shanghai has more than 300 such facilities and some of them are poorly attended, so authorities should pay for them to be redeveloped, the report said.
A woman surnamed Qu who visits a day care center in Hongkou District was quoted as saying that she although she likes the place, it welcomes only “healthy” people.
“We had to have a checkup before we were allowed to come in. Anyone deemed unhealthy was not welcome,” she said.
The center was cited as saying that as a day center and not a nursing home it doesn’t have qualified staff to care for people who are ill or infirm.
According to Zhang Shangda, a political adviser to the Shanghai government, the absence of trained workers means that day care centers are effectively off limits to many senior citizens, the report said.
“The fact is, the centers are closed to exactly the people who need them the most,” he said.
He suggested they be redeveloped as nursing and rehabilitation facilities that can cater to low-income seniors with physical disabilities.
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