Senior citizens in Northeast China's Liaoning province now have access to better care as an innovative nursing home officially settled in Liaoning province's capital city, Shenyang on May 7.

Located in Heping district of Shenyang, the new nursing home is a 22-story building with two functional areas. It covers a total floor area of 76,000 square meters and has over 1,500 nursing beds and 499 inpatient beds in total.

As an innovative senior care center, the Shenyang nursing home offers its senior residents comprehensive services ranging from support in daily living, to physical and mental care.
 
The nursing home is equipped with full-fledged facilities including elderly departments in three different architectural styles available for selection, a garden set on the fifth floor, medical treatment stations, and medical staff on duty 24 hours a day.

What makes the nursing home even more trustworthy is its professional medical team, which is made up of five doctors with doctor's degrees and over 20 doctors with master's degrees. The medical team has rich experience on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and other common elderly diseases.

According to local officials, the nursing home is intended to help alleviate problems arising from Liaoning province's rising elderly population.
   
This year’s statistics from the Shenyang statistics bureau show that one out of four Shenyang residents is 60 year old or above. There are five cities in Liaoning province that the elderly accounts for over 20 percent of the whole population. As a result, the demand for elderly care services is growing.

Liu Dongjie, chairman of the Shenyang nursing home, expressed that the institute will gradually provide free elderly care services for seniors who are 80 years old and above by using its 50 million yuan ($7.25 million) benevolent funds during his interview with Shenyang Daily on May 11.

(Source:Chinadaily)