This is the second post in a series on Alzheimer’s disease in places beyond the borders of the United States.

Chidai: That is the term for dementia in China, where the brain disease is currently affecting about six million people. That’s a problem for any country, but in China, this news is particularly troubling: as life expectancy in the country increases, so will the dementia rates; because of the one-child policy, caring for both parents will be left up to working adult children; and the remoteness of many of the villages where the elderly live means lack of services.

This article from Bloomberg Business outlines many of these issues and introduces readers to 71-year-old Shi Anquan, caregiver to his wife who suffers from Alzheimer’s.