text: Looking after elderly parents can be difficult at the best of times. But this man takes caring for his Alzheimer's-suffering mother to another level. A security guard from China has touched hearts across the country because he takes his 84-year-old mother with him to work on the back of his motorbike every single day, reported the People's Daily Online. Lu Xincai, who lives in Zhejiang province in eastern China, says that he is scared his mother will get lost if he leaves her at home by herself because she suffers from the degenerative disease. Devoted: Lu Xincai takes his 84-year-old mother to work with him on the back of his motorbike every day. He ties a sash around both of their waists to make sure she doesn't fall off . She would often go up to the mountains to collect firewood and there were a few occasions when she got lost after dark. When Mr Lu's father passed away earlier this year, he decided to take his mother with him to work because there was no one else who could look after her. His wife works in a different city and his son is still in school. After helping his mother to get up at 5am every morning, he puts her on the back seat of his motorbike and ties a sash around both of their waists to ensure that she does not fall off. Mr Lu said that he rides the four kilometres to work slowly to make sure his mother feels safe and so that they can chat along the way. The whole journey takes an hour. Even when at work he checks up on his mother, who has been given her own room by his employers, a bank, to make sure that she has not wandered off somewhere. He said that his mother devoted her life to caring for her children, and now he feels like he has a duty to care for her in return. Vulnerable: His elderly mother suffers from Alzheimer's and used to get lost when she was left alone . He said: 'I was an apple in my mum's eye, and now she's my apple.' 'Our mother carried us on her back to the fields when she went to work on the farm and collect firewood when we were young.' He added: 'Only if I see her will I feel relaxed. Otherwise I would be afraid is she had wandered away.'
target: Lu Xincai says no one else can look after his 84-year-old mother .
  She used to get lost after dark when she went to collect firewood .
  Now she goes with him to work on the backseat of his motorbike .
  He ties her to him with a sash to make sure she does not fall off .
  She's now been given her own room at the bank where he works .