Eldercare Issues in China and India (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032183810 ISBN 13: 9781032183817

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two – illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly.

Caring for the elderly is a major challenge for all countries, and one which is of acute concern for rapidly developing economies. Development tends to run counter to long-established cultural norms of family-based caring and filial piety, even as it also tends to lead to longer life expectancy. Taking a range of methodological and conceptual approaches to understanding these challenges, the contributors present a multifaceted understanding of elder care issues in both India and China. They focus in particular on caregiving within families and at care homes – and the impacts these have on quality of life and the experience of caregiving for both caregivers and the aged themselves.

An invaluable collection for scholars and students of gerontology and aging in Asia, that will also be of great interest to scholars with a broader interest in global trends in caregiving.

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About the Author

Longtao He is an associate professor in the Research Institute of Social Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. His research interests focus on qualitative health research, medical social work, and social work ethics. He has published a sole-authored book titled "Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China" with Springer Nature. His articles appear in Qualitative Health Research, Journal of Religion & Health, Applied Research in Quality of Life, British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Ageing, BMJ Open, Journal of Ageing and Social Policy, and so on.

Jagriti Gangopadhyay is currently an Assistant Professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She is also the faculty coordinator for the Center for Women’s Studies. She did her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. For her research, she has received funding from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, India, National Commission for Women, India, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Recently she was also awarded the Shastri Publication Grant by Shastri Indo Canadian Institute for her published monograph, "Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond, published by Springer. She has published in journals of international and national repute such as Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer, Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Ageing International, Springer, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Contributions to Indian Sociology, Sage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032183810
• ISBN 13: 9781032183817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: He Longtao, Gangopadhyay Jagriti