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Published: 17:12, October 20, 2021 | Updated: 18:11, October 20, 2021
A ball of a time
By He Qi
Published:17:12, October 20, 2021 Updated:18:11, October 20, 2021 By He Qi

Residents of the Shagnhai Yangpu Community Nursing Home get dressed for the video featuring them playing with dogs, singing and dancing in the yard. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

SHANGHAI - A video of senior citizens in wheelchairs doing camping has gone viral online after its release last week. 

Titled Dancers in Wheelchairs, the video featured several seniors who reside in the Shanghai Yangpu Community Nursing Home. 

Accompanied by nursing workers, these seniors with an average age of 91 years were playing frisbee with dogs, singing, and dancing around their white tent and picnic mat in the yard. 

With the song New Boy as the background music, the video, released on Oct 12, was produced through a collaboration between the nursing home and a film production team. 

According to Huang Rongyan, deputy director of the Shanghai Yangpu Community Nursing Home, the aim of the video is to break the stereotype that sitting in a wheelchair means losing vitality and life. 

Huang noted that the number of elderly at the home who require wheelchair assistance is increasing. 

"In fact, they enjoy music and dancing very much," Huang said.  

"Through caring for these seniors, we have found that the healing effect of music is very obvious. This is why we came up with the idea of making elderly people in wheelchairs the protagonist of this video." 

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