Ageing in Asia: Asia's Position in the New Global Demography

ISBN-13: 9780415445832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 128 str.

Goodman, Roger

Opis

This volume takes four key themes related to ageing and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia.

Spis treści

1.  Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography  2.  Economic Reform and Intergenerational Relationships in China  3.  'No Wasting' and 'Empty Nesters': 'Old Age' in Beijing  4.  Political and Economic Influences on the Health and Welfare of the Elderly in the USSR and Russia: 1955-2005  5.  The Economic Marginalisation of Post-Soviet Russia’s Elderly Population and the Failure of State Ageing Policy: A Case Study of Magadan City  6.  Experiences in Old Age: A South Indian Example of How Functional Age is Socially Structured  7.  The Inter-Generational Contract in the Changing Asian Family

O autorze

Roger Goodman is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford

Sarah Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing