{"id":90311,"date":"2025-05-10T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90311\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:57:14","slug":"china-son-quits-job-to-care-for-2-year-old-mum-who-lost-mental-faculties-after-falling-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90311\/","title":{"rendered":"China son quits job to care for \u20182-year-old\u2019 mum who lost mental faculties after falling ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 32-year-old man in southwestern China has quit his job to travel with his mother, a former obstetrician who lost her mental faculties due to illness.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang Zhi lives with his mother in Sichuan province. He shares their travel experiences and daily life on social media, where he has gained more than 300,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mainland media reports that Zhang was raised by his mother after his parents divorced when he was a child.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His 58-year-old mother, Yuan, suffers from frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disorder that has left her with the mental capacity of a two-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yuan is looked after by her son. The 58-year-old\u2019s condition has reduced her to a childlike state. Photo: Douyin\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/e025f9a6-f714-4aba-ada6-b29228ca39df_9e16cfbf.jpg\" title=\"Yuan is looked after by her son. The 58-year-old\u2019s condition has reduced her to a childlike state. Photo: Douyin\"\/>Yuan is looked after by her son. The 58-year-old\u2019s condition has reduced her to a childlike state. Photo: Douyin<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The illness causes drastic personality shifts, behaviour issues, and loss of language skills. The condition worsens over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old man in southwestern China has quit his job to travel with his mother, a former obstetrician&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[42830,590,42839,1545,42832,16314,1395,16536,31067,7762,1322,904,42828,42824,42825,42835,425,7371,11662,1806,390,1203,42843,42833,29234,37742,7078,42837,105,1444,42822,42827,5701,42823,32731,42838,42836,42826,2754,32505,42821,218,3180,3176,28746,6738,29766,529,2599,42840,38798,42831,13210,234,182,3750,42829,2079,42834,505,183,11615,16,15,42841,42844,42842],"class_list":{"0":"post-90311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-apology","9":"tag-babies","10":"tag-beautiful","11":"tag-brain","12":"tag-carer","13":"tag-child","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese","16":"tag-choking","17":"tag-clean","18":"tag-company","19":"tag-compensation","20":"tag-compulsive-eating","21":"tag-condition","22":"tag-cure","23":"tag-daily-needs","24":"tag-dementia","25":"tag-diagnosis","26":"tag-disorder","27":"tag-divorce","28":"tag-family","29":"tag-food","30":"tag-frontotemporal-dementia","31":"tag-full-time","32":"tag-furniture","33":"tag-guidance","34":"tag-hair","35":"tag-handwriting","36":"tag-health","37":"tag-home","38":"tag-illness","39":"tag-incontinence","40":"tag-job","41":"tag-language-skills","42":"tag-live-streaming","43":"tag-marry","44":"tag-meals","45":"tag-medical-career","46":"tag-memory-loss","47":"tag-mental","48":"tag-mental-capacity","49":"tag-mental-health","50":"tag-mother","51":"tag-parents","52":"tag-patient","53":"tag-patients","54":"tag-personality","55":"tag-police","56":"tag-restaurant","57":"tag-role-model","58":"tag-safe","59":"tag-salt","60":"tag-sichuan","61":"tag-sleep","62":"tag-social-media","63":"tag-start-up","64":"tag-strangers","65":"tag-surgery","66":"tag-surveillance-cameras","67":"tag-symptoms","68":"tag-travel","69":"tag-treatment","70":"tag-uk","71":"tag-united-kingdom","72":"tag-violations","73":"tag-yuan","74":"tag-zhang-zhi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}