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Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long
| Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.6/0952 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LongSusan Orpett |
| Collana | Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Older people - Care - United States
Older people - Government policy - United States Older people - Services for - United States Older people - Care - Japan Older people - Government policy - Japan Older people - Services for - Japan |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-59413-5
1-280-06965-1 0-203-46447-8 0-203-24962-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Assuring care: government policies and programs; 1 Cultural meanings of ""security"" in aging policies; 2 The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for aging; 3 From the New Deal to the new millennium:: bridging the gap in US aging and health policy; 4 Changing meanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state; 5 Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond the millennium
PART II Providing care: professional caregivers6 We live too short, and die too long: on Japanese and US physicians' caregiving practices and approaches to withholding life-sustaining treatments; 7 Difficult choices: policy and meaning in Japanese hospice practice; 8 Policies and practices near the end of life in the US: the ambivalent pursuit of a good death; PART III Assisting in care: non-profit organizations and volunteers; 9 The development of social welfare services in Japan; 10 The accountability dilemma; providing voluntary care for the elderly in the US and Japan PART IV Coordinating and caring: family caregivers11 Variations in family caregiving in Japan and the US; 12 Recognizing the need for gender-responsive family caregiving policy: lessons from male caregivers; PART V Facilitating care of self; 13 The creativity of the demented elderly: the use of psychological approaches in a Japanese outpatient clinic; 14 Visible lives: life stories and ritual in American nursing homes; 15 Disclosure, decisions, and dementia in Japan: maximizing the continuity of self 16 Concepts of personhood in Alzheimer's disease: considering Japanese notions of a relational self17 Epilogue: downsizing the material self: late life and long involvements with things; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455503803321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long
| Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.6/0952 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LongSusan Orpett |
| Collana | Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Older people - Care - United States
Older people - Government policy - United States Older people - Services for - United States Older people - Care - Japan Older people - Government policy - Japan Older people - Services for - Japan |
| ISBN |
1-134-59412-7
1-134-59413-5 1-280-06965-1 0-203-46447-8 0-203-24962-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Assuring care: government policies and programs; 1 Cultural meanings of ""security"" in aging policies; 2 The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for aging; 3 From the New Deal to the new millennium:: bridging the gap in US aging and health policy; 4 Changing meanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state; 5 Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond the millennium
PART II Providing care: professional caregivers6 We live too short, and die too long: on Japanese and US physicians' caregiving practices and approaches to withholding life-sustaining treatments; 7 Difficult choices: policy and meaning in Japanese hospice practice; 8 Policies and practices near the end of life in the US: the ambivalent pursuit of a good death; PART III Assisting in care: non-profit organizations and volunteers; 9 The development of social welfare services in Japan; 10 The accountability dilemma; providing voluntary care for the elderly in the US and Japan PART IV Coordinating and caring: family caregivers11 Variations in family caregiving in Japan and the US; 12 Recognizing the need for gender-responsive family caregiving policy: lessons from male caregivers; PART V Facilitating care of self; 13 The creativity of the demented elderly: the use of psychological approaches in a Japanese outpatient clinic; 14 Visible lives: life stories and ritual in American nursing homes; 15 Disclosure, decisions, and dementia in Japan: maximizing the continuity of self 16 Concepts of personhood in Alzheimer's disease: considering Japanese notions of a relational self17 Epilogue: downsizing the material self: late life and long involvements with things; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779930203321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long
| Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies / / [edited by] Susan O. Long |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.6/0952 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LongSusan Orpett |
| Collana | Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Older people - Care - United States
Older people - Government policy - United States Older people - Services for - United States Older people - Care - Japan Older people - Government policy - Japan Older people - Services for - Japan |
| ISBN |
1-134-59412-7
1-134-59413-5 1-280-06965-1 0-203-46447-8 0-203-24962-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Assuring care: government policies and programs; 1 Cultural meanings of ""security"" in aging policies; 2 The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for aging; 3 From the New Deal to the new millennium:: bridging the gap in US aging and health policy; 4 Changing meanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state; 5 Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond the millennium
PART II Providing care: professional caregivers6 We live too short, and die too long: on Japanese and US physicians' caregiving practices and approaches to withholding life-sustaining treatments; 7 Difficult choices: policy and meaning in Japanese hospice practice; 8 Policies and practices near the end of life in the US: the ambivalent pursuit of a good death; PART III Assisting in care: non-profit organizations and volunteers; 9 The development of social welfare services in Japan; 10 The accountability dilemma; providing voluntary care for the elderly in the US and Japan PART IV Coordinating and caring: family caregivers11 Variations in family caregiving in Japan and the US; 12 Recognizing the need for gender-responsive family caregiving policy: lessons from male caregivers; PART V Facilitating care of self; 13 The creativity of the demented elderly: the use of psychological approaches in a Japanese outpatient clinic; 14 Visible lives: life stories and ritual in American nursing homes; 15 Disclosure, decisions, and dementia in Japan: maximizing the continuity of self 16 Concepts of personhood in Alzheimer's disease: considering Japanese notions of a relational self17 Epilogue: downsizing the material self: late life and long involvements with things; Glossary; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819199603321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek
| Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek |
| Autore | Świtek Beata |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.6/30899922052 |
| Soggetto topico |
Older people - Care - Japan
Caregivers - Japan Indonesia - Foreign economic relations - Japan Japan - Foreign economic relations - Indonesia |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropological scholarship
anthropological studies anthropology asia biographical career caregiver demographic change demography disease health issues dying elder care eldercare engaging ethnographic research ethnography family generational gerontology illness immigration and immigrants indonesian eldercare indonesian workers intimacy japan japanese colleagues mass media nursing homes page turner realistic social science social sciences societal transformation sociology working class |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- List of Abbreviations -- Map 1 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Map 2 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver and nurse candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagining Life and Work in Japan -- Chapter 2 Working Intimacies -- Chapter 3 Intimate Management -- Chapter 4 National Predicaments -- Conclusion Reluctant Intimacies -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792523003321 |
Świtek Beata
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| New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek
| Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek |
| Autore | Świtek Beata |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.6/30899922052 |
| Soggetto topico |
Older people - Care - Japan
Caregivers - Japan Indonesia - Foreign economic relations - Japan Japan - Foreign economic relations - Indonesia |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropological scholarship
anthropological studies anthropology asia biographical career caregiver demographic change demography disease health issues dying elder care eldercare engaging ethnographic research ethnography family generational gerontology illness immigration and immigrants indonesian eldercare indonesian workers intimacy japan japanese colleagues mass media nursing homes page turner realistic social science social sciences societal transformation sociology working class |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- List of Abbreviations -- Map 1 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Map 2 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver and nurse candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagining Life and Work in Japan -- Chapter 2 Working Intimacies -- Chapter 3 Intimate Management -- Chapter 4 National Predicaments -- Conclusion Reluctant Intimacies -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821761903321 |
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Świtek Beata
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| New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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