Old people in China used to live with their children, who cared for them, in accordance with Confucian teachings. Now the young have migrated to the cities and more than half of the 185 million Chinese over 65 live alone.

It costs too much to take care of the western world’s old and frail in their own homes or care homes. German is beginning to export the work to low-wage service economies.

In April Uhuru Kenyatta was inaugurated as Kenya’s fourth president. He is the son of the first president, Jomo Kenyatta, who replaced the hope and triumph of Kenya’s independence with single-party rule. He is also the chosen successor to Daniel Arap Moi, the second president, who ran Kenya as a police state and personal ATM. We’ve come this far in just 50 years.