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Last year, and expensive, red=brick residential complex opened here, equipped with a hair salon, cinema, toy-cluttered game rooms and a karaoke suite offering the latest in pop music.

The residents are not Chinese yuppies.  They are older patients with Alzheimer's disease or dementia in a nursing home that is on the forefront or a new effort by China to deal with its exploding elderly population.

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/world/asia/13shanghai.html