China’s aging problem is getting more and more serious, and many elders are looking for senior care institutions on their own in order to enjoy their old age peacefully. However, in Yiyang, Hunan Province, it was recently reported that an elderly person was suspected to have been cheated out of more than 100,000 yuan (RMB) in pensions by a senior care institution and eventually jumped into the river to his death.
Hong Kong 01 quoted China Newsweekly as reporting that some people with knowledge of the situation revealed that a number of local senior care institutions charged high fees for reserving senior care beds, and more than 2,000 elderly people were cheated, and a number of people died as a result.
A 62-year-old man died after jumping naked into Yiyang’s Ziyang River on the 19th. Witnesses said that the old man jumped from the bridge, the body stuck in the stone cracks under the bridge, only a few days later by divers to salvage the water.
The informant said that the deceased was a second Marriage Family, no contact with his ex-wife and children, and adopted a child with his current wife; he had saved 170,000 in a retirement institution, and because he was no longer financially capable of being cheated out of his money, he finally decided to jump into the river and die. Informed sources revealed that a number of local elderly institutions in Yiyang to book retirement beds and rebate model to collect high fees, claiming that it is welfare, pay a deposit to rebate and enjoy the VIP treatment of retirement housing, but the actual collection of funds for the elderly suspected of running away, in which 10% of the elders involved is extremely poor.
The report points out that there are rumors that the deceased is named Cao Ronglin, who has been doing odd jobs for a living before, and his Life savings were cheated by Yiyang Nanuo Nursing Home to reserve a bed; his wife is in the intensive care unit of Yiyang Central Hospital due to complications from diabetes, and is still waiting for Cao Ronglin to send money.
In addition to Cao Ronglin, 71-year-old woman Li Youcai also died last August after being cheated out of her savings by a nursing home. Her husband said he found out that the money given to his wife for safekeeping had turned into a pile of contracts and bills, including 30,000 for the scheduled senior care services given to Heng Fu Hai Senior Center, and 70,000 in savings were also taken by another nursing home.
He recalled that before her death, Li Youcai had received a phone call informing her that the Heng Fuhai Senior Center could not pay for its senior care services and that the owner, Liu Yan, had been forced to turn himself in. According to incomplete statistics, a number of elderly people have died of despair since the industry-wide “explosion” of retirement home services in Yiyang due to the booking of retirement beds.
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