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Eldercare Issues in China and India

Author : Longtao He
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000569039
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Eldercare Issues in China and India written by Longtao He and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two – illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly. Caring for the elderly is a major challenge for all countries, and one which is of acute concern for rapidly developing economies. Development tends to run counter to long-established cultural norms of family-based caring and filial piety, even as it also tends to lead to longer life expectancy. Taking a range of methodological and conceptual approaches to understanding these challenges, the contributors present a multifaceted understanding of elder care issues in both India and China. They focus in particular on caregiving within families and at care homes – and the impacts these have on quality of life and the experience of caregiving for both caregivers and the aged themselves. An invaluable collection for scholars and students of gerontology and aging in Asia, that will also be of great interest to scholars with a broader interest in global trends in caregiving.

Elderly Care in India

Author : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811034397
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Elderly Care in India written by S. Irudaya Rajan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care and economic support, the changing dynamics between generations in the family structure and privatization of health care in general create new challenges that need to be addressed. Although care plays a significant role in the well-being of the elderly, there is not much research available from India. This volume draws on field-based evidence and the legal framework in India to understand the ways in which care is organized for the elderly and to locate the main sources of care provision. The book addresses key themes such as shrinking of traditional support base of the elderly, trajectory of old age homes in India and care arrangements for the elderly within the community. Written by academics and practitioners in the field of gerontology, this book is an informative resource for demographers, gerontologists, social scientists studying aging, and human rights and legal experts working with the aged.

Aging in China

Author : Sheying Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781441983510
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Aging in China written by Sheying Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the fastest rate) and much faster than nations in western Europe. (2) An early arrival of an aging population before modernization has fully taken place, with social policy implications. It is certain that China will face a severely aged population before it has sufficient time and resources to establish an adequate social security and service system for older people. (3) There will be fluctuations in the total dependency ratio. The Chinese government estimates are that the country will reach a higher dependent burden earlier in the twenty-first century than was previously forecast. (4) The government’s fertility policy (single child per family) and its implementation has a strong influence on the aging process. Fewer children are being born, but with more elderly people a conflict arises between the objectives to limit population increase and yet maintain a balanced age structure (Peng and Guo 2001). The intersection of these fourfold factors means that the increased aging population is giving rise to serious concerns among Chinese social policy makers. There is a chronic lack of good resource materials that attempt to make sense of social policy in its relationship to examining the problems and possibilities of human aging grounded in an analysis of economic of social policy in China and impact on rural and urban spaces. Such analysis of China will be covered by conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches. The book will also discuss substantive topics of housing, community care, family care, pensions, and mental health. The book brings together a truly world class array of researchers to provide discussions of critical implications of aging social policy and the economic impact in China.

Single at Heart

Author : Bella DePaulo
Publisher : Apollo Publishers
ISBN 13 : 195464129X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Single at Heart written by Bella DePaulo and published by Apollo Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed social scientist Dr. Bella DePaulo, the leading expert on single life, comes groundbreaking, comprehensive confirmation that a powerful, healthy, happy life is possible not in spite of being single, but because of it. All too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life? In Single at Heart, Dr. Bella DePaulo speaks on behalf of the millions of people across the globe who are powerfully drawn to single life for all it has to offer and shares what it means to not just be happy being single for a time, but to be happy being single always. This pivotal volume addresses misconceptions about single life head on, spotlighting, celebrating, and supporting those who plan to stay single and sharing research, case studies, anecdotal examples, and more to help family members and friends understand. In richly engaging, evidence-based text, Dr. DePaulo—a Harvard-educated professor and researcher whose Ted Talk on the appeal of staying single has had more that 1.6 million views—supports readers of all genders, ages, and backgrounds who are Single at Heart and advises on topics as diverse as solitude, freedom, intimacy, children, and societal pressure. For Dr. DePaulo, her understanding of herself as Single at Heart provided strength, time, confidence, power, authenticity, deep fulfillment, and more. In Single at Heart she shares what she’s learned as well as the stories of others, in the process inspiring and fueling a movement of people standing up for what is right for them and thriving because of it.

Options for Aged Care in China

Author : Elena Glinskaya
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464810761
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Options for Aged Care in China written by Elena Glinskaya and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to provide an understanding of the evolving aged care landscape in China; review international experiences in long-term care provision, financing, and quality assurance and assess their relevance to China; discuss implications of current developments and trends for the future of aged care in China; and propose policy options.

Community Eldercare Ecology in China

Author : Lin Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811549605
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Community Eldercare Ecology in China written by Lin Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China. Bringing a timely discussion around HCBS development in Shanghai, it presents an interplay of formal caregiving relationships, evolving caregiving culture, and the trajectory of long-term care in China. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and government archives, this book explores the emergence of one of the most developed HCBS programs in Shanghai, its development over the past decade, its administration and services, resource allocation, staff members’ work experiences, older adults’ service experiences, as well as service evaluation and improvements. Offering fresh insight into new forms of caregiving in community settings, and shaping a new discourse on caregiving policy, this book is a key read for both students and practitioners in the fields of long-term care, gerontology, geriatrics, health care, and health policy.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Author : Sergey Marochkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000589528
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Cooperation Organization written by Sergey Marochkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world, covering an enormous landmass including China, India, Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours. With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states, the SCO’s activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20, BRICS, NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume, representing a range of the states within the SCO, evaluate the possibilities for the Organization, and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc’s prospects for economic, humanitarian, legal, trade, labour, migration, and environmental cooperation, as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors, analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO, note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO. A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation, and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships.

Humour in Asian Cultures

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591778
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Humour in Asian Cultures written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today’s conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions. This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.

City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines

Author : Koki Seki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000598985
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines written by Koki Seki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with topics including urban poverty, environmental degradation, and transnational migration. Throughout these chapters, Seki elaborates on the modes of security and protection that people living at the margins of global capitalism create through mobilizing their sociality and networks. He traces the emerging configuration of "the social," a collectivity and connectedness that ensures a sense of security in life among people. The social can be defined as an idea or institution, which had enabled formal and impersonal solidarity such as that which provided the underpinnings of the modern welfare states of the West during the mid-20th century. In the twenty-first century the social in this context is experiencing a fundamental reconfiguration as it faces deepening insecurity, risk, and the precariousness of the post-Welfare State or post-Fordist regime. What are the contours of the social emerging in an "unlikely place" of the Philippines amid contemporary insecurity and precariousness? A vital resource for scholars of the Philippines, and of anthropology and social policy in the Global South more widely.

Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China

Author : Lin Chen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137544406
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China written by Lin Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China. This study examines how a rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and economic reform in urban China pose unprecedented challenges to the country’s ingrained tradition of family caregiving. It presents interviews of matched elders and their children from a government-sponsored nursing home in Shanghai and analyzes the decision-making process of institutionalization. This book offers fresh insight into the evolving culture and arrangements of caregiving in contemporary Chinese society, illuminating the diverse needs for long-term care of Chinese elders–the world’s largest aging population–in the coming decades.

Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce

Author : Lisa M. Finkelstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113503950X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce written by Lisa M. Finkelstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors address workforce aging issues around the world, allowing for productive cross-cultural comparisons. Chapters adopt a use-inspired approach, with contributors proposing solutions to real problems faced by organizations, including global teamwork, unemployed youth, job obsolescence and over-qualification, heavy emotional labor and physically demanding jobs, and cross-age perceptions and communication. Additional commentaries from sociologists, gerontologists, economists, and scholars of labor and government round out the volume and demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of this important topic.

Social Welfare in India and China

Author : Jianguo Gao
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811556482
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare in India and China written by Jianguo Gao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China. It focuses on gaining understanding of design and delivery of social welfare policies related to special interest groups, highlighting important contemporary challenges such as child labour, child abuse, exploitation of women, problems related to disabled people, mental health issue, illiteracy and unemployment. Offering a comparative perspective, the book considers the impact of political administration in both countries to critically assess key issues related to social welfare in two different political, economic, social, and cultural contexts.

The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China

Author : Fang Cai (John Giles, Philip O'Keefe, and Dewen Wang)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China written by Fang Cai (John Giles, Philip O'Keefe, and Dewen Wang) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook on Gender in Asia

Author : Shirlena Huang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788112911
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Gender in Asia written by Shirlena Huang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines, through a gender perspective, five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Migrations and Mobilities’; and ‘Gender at the Margins’. With each chapter providing an overview of the key intellectual developments on the issue under discussion, as well as empirical examples to examine how the Asian case sheds light on these debates, this collection will be an invaluable reference for scholars of gender and Asia.

Population Ageing in India

Author : G. Giridhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316143872
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Population Ageing in India written by G. Giridhar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major emerging demographic issue of the twenty-first century is the ageing of populations as an inevitable consequence of the demographic transition experienced by most countries. While all countries are experiencing growing proportions of the elderly, developing countries are currently ageing faster than developed countries. Population Ageing in India creates a holistic research base by looking at the demographics of the ageing population and reviewing existing studies. It delves deep into the socioeconomic layers of elderly health, work participation and contribution to income generation, national policy in practice and policy initiatives to ensure elderly wellbeing in other Asian countries. The shift of age composition to an older age structure has important implications for individuals, society as well as the country. Therefore, there is a need to promote harmony between development and demographic change by increasing the economic and social sources of support for the elderly.

Filial Piety

Author : Charlotte Ikels
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804747911
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Filial Piety written by Charlotte Ikels and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have rapid industrial development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia? Eleven experienced fieldworkers take a fresh look at an old idea, analyzing contemporary behavior, not norms, among both rural and urban families in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Each chapter presents rich ethnographic data on how filial piety shapes the decisions and daily lives of adult children and their elderly parents. The authors ability to speak the local languages and their long-term, direct contact with the villagers and city dwellers they studied lend an immediacy and authenticity lacking in more abstract treatments of the topic. This book is an ideal text for social science and humanities courses on East Asia because it focuses on shared cultural practices while analyzing the ways these practices vary with local circumstances of history, economics, social organization, and demography and with personal circumstances of income, gender, and family configuration.

Active Ageing, Active Learning

Author : Gillian Boulton-Lewis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789400721111
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Active Ageing, Active Learning written by Gillian Boulton-Lewis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.