Week 8

Retirement

I am already 22 years old, after 10 yeas at most, my parents will retire. In China, for people who were born after 1980 are most only child in the family. So every family has only one child. When our parents retire, what would us to do? When we get married, that means a young couple need to take care four old parents. It is unlikely to accompany all of them all the time. I think the best way maybe is the retirement village or resthome. in there, they can be taken care of by the nursing staff and have some activiities with friends who are the similar age.

Actually, the whole world is facing population aging problem. What I found, particularly in China, there will be a new industry targeting on aging population, some body call it the silver-hair industry. As the aging people increasing, the more services such as retirement village or resthome will be needed. I think it would be a good opportunity to invest in it. Of couse, we need to create more comfortable envrionment for old people, serve them what they need, both physical and psycological.