National authorities issued new action standards for filial piety with the aim of providing better care for
senior citizens in the modern era, Beijing News reported Tuesday.
The new standards suggest adult children spend holidays with parents, cook meals for and make weekly phone
calls to them, teach them to surf the Internet and buy them proper insurance.
People are also advised to care more about the mental health of their parents through such ways as helping
widowed parents get remarried and listening to parents retell anecdotes from the past.
National authorities have been making efforts lately to update care guidelines for senior citizens. Adult
children of elderly parents are required to visit their parents regularly, in a draft amendment to China's law
on protection of the rights and interests of the elderly, which was submitted to the nation's top legislature
for review in June.
