Green Prescriptions for all: Healthcare strategies for older people in China

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Green Prescriptions for all: Healthcare strategies for older people in China

11 September 2019

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Jenny Song

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 01:00 AM

The Chinese Government is advocating “exercise for all” as part of a national strategy to foster a healthy-ageing environment

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Wintec nursing academic Jenny Song writes about China’s strategy to use ancient concepts of filial piety and modern exercise promotion to keep the country’s 118.8 million over-65s healthy and fit

A simple and graceful hand exercise was taught recently to a group of elderly Chinese people in Hamilton by visiting nurses from China. The nurses,

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