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- Title: Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
- Author : Lin Chen
- Release Date : January 11, 2016
- Genre: Sociology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,Politics & Current Events,Public Administration,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1197 KB
Description
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.