Evolving eldercare in contemporary C...
Chen, Lin.

 

  • Evolving eldercare in contemporary China[electronic resource] :two generations, one decision /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 362.60951
    Title/Author: Evolving eldercare in contemporary China : two generations, one decision // by Lin Chen.
    Author: Chen, Lin.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan US :, 2016.
    Description: xvii, 213 p. : : ill., digital ;; 22 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    Subject: Older people - Care - China.
    Subject: Aging parents - Care - China.
    Subject: Adult children of aging parents - China.
    Subject: Caregivers - China.
    Subject: Social Sciences.
    Subject: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
    Subject: Politics of the Welfare State.
    ISBN: 9781137544407
    ISBN: 9781137546937
    [NT 15000229]: 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.
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54440-7
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