Re: XMAS Card

[Aaron Brill]

Hi: It is a great web page even without being able to read Chinese. The picture are great. I will get help from one of my
Chinese colleagues for detail. Thanks for the info.
Randy


On 1/19/10 11:17 PM, "ZhuBingxian" <bing...@live.cn> wrote:

 

Dear Randy & Joan：
Thank you very much for your letter. We are glad to know that you are interested in those information about the life of aged people in China we told. Nevertheless, we are sorry to say, the aged people in rural area don’t have much advantages such as those living in large cities. On the contrary, the CWW system in US covers wide rural area and is beneficial to most aged people. We have found WEB site address of the Suzhou Age People University. It might be useful to you, if there are any people in your community, who can read Chinese and help you.
WEB address of Suzhou Age People University:
www.szlndx.net <http://www.szlndx.net/>  
Love to you and your family,
Bing and Wenwei
  

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:41:28 -0600
Subject: XMAS Card
From: aaron...@vanderbilt.edu
To: bing...@live.cn

Dear Bing and Wenwei:

Your very interesting and informative card just arrived.

Your description of how aged people live in China is fascinating, and I am restating what you said so that I can share it with the few people in our CWW group. Progress in our case has been disappointingly slow.

We all know how long China has been a leader in Science, technology, literature, and the arts, but leadership in dealing with aging populations is new to me, and fascinating.

In Germany, health care became available for all around 1860, and through Europe by the turn of the Century (<1900). In the USA, we have just passed the first half of a mild bill to provide health care to most people, without fundamentally changing the present failing system.

China has made quite an important voyage. It seems that China is experimenting with important solutions for senior care in major cities, and the next step will be exporting them to the more rural areas. China moved from the barefoot doctor, to centers of medical excellence, and is now moving to fill in the gap in more remote areas. It will be important for us to watch and learn from your experience. You describe the following in Suzhou

Free bus transport for persons over age 70, and monthly discount cards for people of 60 costing 3 USD. That is a great solution since you do have good bus transport in most of your large cities.
Free sightseeing  (city gardens, museums and most exhibits is great.

Age People Universities (APU) is a great way for people to acquire new knowledge, and communicate with each other.  How widely is this distributed? Is it only in the major cities with important Universities?
Suzhou APU offers painting, dancing, playing musical instruments, chorus, cooking, health care, literature writing, tour guide training, photography, computer applications, and English language,...

Community administrations (block organized) pay special attention to the homes with single aged persons. They send free housekeeping ladies to help persons over 70 every day for 2 hours.

If the work places from which people retire are are in good financial shape, they organize free travels twice a year for aged retired employees.

In contrast to the ÇWW model, which is funded mainly by individuals, the APUs are mainly supported by the local government.

Wenwei (Bing’s wife), has been attending APU courses for many yeas. She stated to learn Chinese painting and traditional musical instruments. Bing has been more involved with Physical exercises an dancing. This all sounds great to me. I go to the Gym daily, but that is the extent of my endeavors outside of work, and helping around the home.

I think I sent my annual XMAS card earlier, and wanted now to thank you for the wonderful information you passed. Please continue to update me and I will try to stimulate the powers that be here to try to keep up with what you are pioneering.

Love to you and your family,

Randy and Joan Brill

      

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