Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
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.
| Autor: | Chen, Lin |
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| ISBN: | 9781137546937 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 213 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Veröffentlicht: | 12.04.2016 |
| Untertitel: | Two Generations, One Decision |
| Schlagworte: | Chinese Culture Eldercare Healthcare Decision Making Parent–child Retirement Social Policy Urban China Welfare phenomenology relationships |
Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.