Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China

Kirjan Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China (2016) on kirjoittanut Lin Chen. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Palgrave Macmillan. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 213 sivua ja se on sidottu.

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.