Competency tests for better care of the elderly


Golden girls: The elderly showing greeting cards they received at an event marking the upcoming Senior’s Day held at a community in Xi’an, in Shaanxi province. — Xinhua

NANJING: In a welfare house in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, 25-year-old Jiang Zhenyi taught an old lady how to play wooden block puzzles, not for leisure as in some elderly care service, but as a test to assess the abilities of the aged.

“Judging from the granny’s movement of rotating the wooden blocks, her hand-brain coordination is not bad, ” said Jiang, who held a detailed assessment form in her hands and carefully ticked the checkboxes on it.

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