Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415445833 ISBN 13: 9780415445832

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of 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. In placing these Asian cases studies in the broader context of debates about, and policies on, ageing more generally, it brings them into the mainstream of comparative research on ageing from which they have been too often excluded. As the studies show, the relationship between ageing and poverty is a complex one and often reflects policy towards the aged rather than that the aged themselves are unproductive and dependent. Ageing, moreover, can no longer be considered as simply a national question; we also need to consider the implications of its global dimension in terms of issues such as human rights and quality of life.

About this title

About the Author

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

Sarah Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415445833
• ISBN 13: 9780415445832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Goodman Roger, Harper Sarah