{"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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-90311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-apology","tag-babies","tag-beautiful","tag-brain","tag-carer","tag-child","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-choking","tag-clean","tag-company","tag-compensation","tag-compulsive-eating","tag-condition","tag-cure","tag-daily-needs","tag-dementia","tag-diagnosis","tag-disorder","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-food","tag-frontotemporal-dementia","tag-full-time","tag-furniture","tag-guidance","tag-hair","tag-handwriting","tag-health","tag-home","tag-illness","tag-incontinence","tag-job","tag-language-skills","tag-live-streaming","tag-marry","tag-meals","tag-medical-career","tag-memory-loss","tag-mental","tag-mental-capacity","tag-mental-health","tag-mother","tag-parents","tag-patient","tag-patients","tag-personality","tag-police","tag-restaurant","tag-role-model","tag-safe","tag-salt","tag-sichuan","tag-sleep","tag-social-media","tag-start-up","tag-strangers","tag-surgery","tag-surveillance-cameras","tag-symptoms","tag-travel","tag-treatment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-violations","tag-yuan","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}]}}