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Older people often face varied and vicious abuse from care workers. Situations are typically more pronounced for older people who live with additional cognitive or physical difficulties, such as dementia and disabilities, the prevalence of which has been on the rise in China and elsewhere. Recent reported discoveries of elder abuse in China, which span alarming levels of verbal, physical, psychological, financial, and sexual abuse, have almost all been caused by nannies or ‘bao mu’. Different from Western countries, the word nanny is often used to refer to people who offer caregiving help in residential settings at large, regardless of the age of the care recipients. What is also different is the lack of regulations or even rigorous training and evaluation processes for nannies in China: almost anyone can become a nanny—even though a background check is often required for nannies, this process is often highly …