Chinese obtain assistance with old age care

The German-Chinese Institute for Old Age Care is beginning to gain momentum. On Tuesday, it returned to Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, the town in which it was originally founded in 2016.

This was the place where Sen Wang, coordinator of Chinese contacts at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, and former Federal State Parliament Member Herbert Hartung came up with the exciting idea of initiating cooperation between Germany and China in the field of old age care.

The German-Chinese Institute for Old Age Care was ultimately established in March 2017 as a joint venture between Burchard Führer GmbH, the Institute for Continuing Training in Nursing and Old Age Care (IWK), the Beijing-based company Zuofu Culture und Technology Co. Ltd. and several institutes specialising in nursing from various Chinese provinces. Its head office is in Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt.

"The institute is now beginning to get on with the work it was set up to do," said Jeannette Eckert-Ulrich, speaking at the headquarters of the IWK, the not-for-profit education and training provider which forms part of the consortium, in Köthen on Tuesday.

Ms. Eckert-Ulrich, who is responsible for all IWK locations in Saxony-Anhalt, is expecting a Chinese delegation from Handan, a city with almost ten million inhabitants.