First Aged-care Undergraduate College Joint Set up by Government and University Launched in Nanjing

Recently, a cooperative agreement was concluded by Jiangsu Provincial Civil Affairs Department and Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to jointly set up a college for aged-care service and management. This was also the first aged-care undergraduate college set up by government and university jointly in China. In the future, both sides would be committed to the high-level professional talent education and contractual programs. Relying on knowledge and skills of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in aged-care services and management, the new College was able to educated professional talents in the fields of Geriatrics, nursing, geriatric rehabilitation and elderly health management. Meanwhile, Jiangsu Provincial Civil Affairs Department would offer supporting policies to select, educate, appointment, motivate and evaluate those talents and promote aged-care institutes to select the undergraduates.