1st Edition

Ageing in Asia Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography

Edited By Roger Goodman, Sarah Harper Copyright 2008
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography.  Economic Reform and Intergenerational Relationships in China.  'No Wasting' and 'Empty Nesters': 'Old Age' in Beijing.  Political and Economic Influences on the Health and Welfare of the Elderly in the USSR and Russia: 1955-2005.  The Economic Marginalisation of Post-Soviet Russia’s Elderly Population and the Failure of State Ageing Policy: A Case Study of Magadan City.  Experiences in Old Age: A South Indian Example of How Functional Age is Socially Structured.  The Inter-Generational Contract in the Changing Asian Family

Biography

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

Sarah Harper is Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing