Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
Gardens and bigger rooms await
Yee Hong Heights, just outside the city of Shenzhen, looks more like a mountain retreat than a care home. Its 260 residents can wander through gardens fringed with palm trees. But the classes on how to use an iPad are perhaps more important. Some 70% of the residents come from Hong Kong. The training allows them to talk with their children back in the city.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “One way to stay spry”
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