Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China [[electronic resource] ] : Two Generations, One Decision / / by Lin Chen
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| Autore: |
Chen Lin
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| Titolo: |
Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China [[electronic resource] ] : Two Generations, One Decision / / by Lin Chen
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 362.60951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social groups |
| Family | |
| Welfare state | |
| Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging | |
| Politics of the Welfare State | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: too great a task: taking care of aging parents -- The setting: the nursing home and the sociocultural caregiving context in urban China -- The theoretical lens: conceptualizing the decision-making process -- Unexpected reality: etiology of family caregiving -- Swinging pendulum: a power play between generations -- Children parenting: first and last adventure -- The end of an era: a new dialogue -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China |
| ISBN: | 1-137-54440-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910253330003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies, . 2730-7956