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China, HK, Macau
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Why long term care market in China will open up only after today’s real estate bubble pops

By 2020, 17% or 248 million of Chinese citizens will be over 60 years of age (For Samuel Green's excellent four part series on this subject, go here, here, here, and here). Any businessman who looks at this number will tell yo...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
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Sinosplice sees hospitals in train Stations and vice versa

There is something to be said for the ultimate inefficiency of a system that funds all public services from a single budget and tries to do so equitably. For some reason, historically, health has been viewed by all revolutiona...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
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Photo essay on the Elderly in Rural China

Several of the pictures really give a sense of how much care is required for sick elderly in China's countryside. The pictures are not representative of the countryside as a whole, but our focused on some of the most extreme p...
by Damjan Denoble
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China, HK, Macau
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The rural life and time of China’s elderly, Part IV: Limiting Catastrophe

The primary issue of migration is the near-crisis statistic regarding levels of eldercare needed from 2030. Throwing money at the problem will not solve it alone. A sophisticated private investment and rural development program...
by Samuel
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China, HK, Macau
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The Rural Life and Times of China’s Aging Population, Part III: Institutional Problems

While one might simply point at the above discussed brain drain the real culprit might be the hukou system. The hukou system is a household registration system which, among other things, is used to calculate health insurance r...
by Samuel
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