Are You Dead? China’s viral app reveals a complex reality of solo living and changing social ties

A Chinese personal safety app called Are You Dead? – recently rebranded as Demumu – has gone viral in recent weeks, ...
The Independent

Alone in Their Later Years: The quiet struggles of Kitgum’s elderly

Every morning, 78-year-old Justino Okello sits alone on a wooden stool outside his grass-thatched hut in Oryang Ojuma B, in ...

A viral question for young Chinese people living alone: 'Are you dead?'

A new app’s popularity reflects demographic changes in China, where urbanization, falling marriage rates and long work hours ...

Over 22M older Americans live alone, unmarried, without kids, and struggle to keep up with rising costs

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) generally defines solo-agers as older adults who are single, living alone, and lack ...

She Let Her 6-Year-Old Ride to the Park Alone. Georgia Called It Neglect.

Despite a new state law protecting childhood independence, child welfare officials accused these Atlanta parents of ...
ABC News

Aimed at young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?'

In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or stunningly direct BEIJING -- In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular ...
WPRI 12

Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?’

BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It’s called, simply, ...
Click2Houston

Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?'

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