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The measures here are money and personal freedom. Many difficulties arise because conversations and paperwork were left too late, rather than simply from a lack of money. The final entry concerns pressure injuries in people confined to bed and uses mortality, so it is not ranked directly against the financial entries. Legal rules, benefits, phone numbers and RMB prices below concern China.
While the person can decide for themselves, record who should act as guardian if that changes, with notarization if desired. The source warns that without prior designation, disputes over signing and managing money can require a court's involvement and take longer when relatives disagree.
Chinese law recognizes six forms of will, each with formal requirements. A handwritten will must be entirely written, signed and dated with year, month and day by the testator. If several valid wills conflict, the latest governs. Since 2021, notarization no longer gives an earlier will automatic priority.
Supplement, collectible and investment scams often spend months building trust before seeking one large payment. Agree in advance that spending above a set amount requires talking to a named person first. This delays payment beyond the moment of maximum pressure.
Sales pressure and scams make refusal awkward in the moment. Agree on “I need to discuss this with my family first.” It offers a socially comfortable exit and may work better than explanations after the money is gone.
Upfront eldercare payments tied to promised returns can be the same fundraising scam under different names: cards, beds, apartments, retirement travel or product seminars. Chinese rules leave participants bearing unrecovered losses. One advance-bed-reservation case collected RMB 136 million from over 2,100 people. The key point to interrupt is payment.
The cited Chinese regulator distinguishes insurers' reverse-mortgage pension insurance, then a limited pilot, from schemes persuading older people to mortgage their home and invest the proceeds. Some victims did not realize their homes were mortgaged and ultimately lost both the home and the borrowed money while retaining debt.
China's long-term care insurance helps fund care for people with persistent severe disability, generally lasting over six months. Covered care has no deductible; employee-policy coverage is about 70% and nonemployed resident-policy coverage about 50%. Bed and meal charges are excluded. There is no age cutoff: younger people with severe loss of independence can also qualify.
Older hip-fracture patients with pressure injuries before surgery had roughly 20% higher 30-day mortality odds. Powered air surfaces reduced new pressure injuries by about 60% in pooled comparisons; a trial that reliably implemented repositioning reported about 70% fewer. Avoid prolonged prone positioning. Check sacrum/tailbone, heels, hips, shoulders and back daily, and seek nursing/medical advice that day for redness that does not blanch with pressure.