Respite service means that government departments purchase services to provide temporary assistance to low-income families or families with special difficulties who have disabled and mentally handicapped elderly
that those who take care of their relatives at home all the year round can have a short rest.
As their children emigrated abroad, the elderly Mr. Zhao and his wife had to rely on each other. They usually went to the market to buy daily necessities and went to the hospital to get medicine. After learning about the situation, the community specially hired people to come to their homes for half an hour every day to help them with the housework.