Chen, Lin. <br/><br/>
Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China  Two Generations, One Decision /  [electronic resource] : 
by Lin Chen. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan US (Imprint),  2016. 
 - XVII, 213 p.  online resource. 
 - Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137544407 (ebook: PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Welfare state.<br/>Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305