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Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
Lin Chen
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Description for Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
Hardback. Series: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137546937
SKU
V9781137546937
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Ref
99-15
About Lin Chen
Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.
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