Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China

Lin Chen

ISBN 10: 113754693X / ISBN 13: 9781137546937

Published by Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2016, 2016

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Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113754693X
• ISBN 13: 9781137546937
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 18D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 418 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.