In-home nursing services, long a gray area of the senior healthcare system, has received authorization from the National Health Commission in a decision that has drawn initial praise from the medical community and many elderly patients. A notification released in mid-February creates a trial program allowing people to make home appointments via app or Internet for nursing services in the cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. The trial will run through December. A number of concerns about the actual operation of the program are still to be resolved.