Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China

Lin Chen

ISBN 10: 113754693X / ISBN 13: 9781137546937

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2016, 2016

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 232 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781137546937

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2016
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 113754693X
• ISBN-13: 9781137546937
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm
• Gewicht: 418 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.