UK Health Secretary: Britain must learn from China

The British Health Secretary has been telling his country to learn from the Chinese on how to treat elderly people.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Britain must learn to treat older people with "reverence." He told the Daily Mail that British people should be ashamed of how they treat their grandparents and residential care should be a last resort.

"We should revere our grandparents as they do in China. In those countries, when living alone is no longer possible, residential care is a last rather than a first option. If we are to tackle the challenge of an ageing society, we must learn from this." Hunt said.