Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China [electronic resource] : Two Generations, One Decision / by Lin Chen.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US (Imprint), 2016.Description: XVII, 213 p. online resourceISBN: - 9781137544407 (ebook: PDF)
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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.
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