Also being tabled is an amendment to the rights protection law for the elderly, which would make "visiting or contacting elderly family members" a legal requirement for younger family members, according to the Beijing Times and Beijng News.

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He was listening passively to me talk about all the things we were achieving when I mentioned my responsibility for visiting shut-ins, mostly elderly women and a few men who were no longer able to get out of their homes.

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This is not only a costly situation but especially harmful to women, children, the elderly and disabled, who risk their safety visiting public facilities at night. 4.8 million Ghanaians (approximately 1 in 5) have no latrine at all and defecate in the open, and that the poorest quintile is 22 times more likely to practice open defection than the richest.

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