ISBN:
9780826116666
,
0826116663
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 298 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Aging in East and West
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Older people Cross-cultural studies
;
Aging Cross-cultural studies
;
Personnes âgées Études transculturelles
;
Vieillissement Études transculturelles
;
Aging Cross-cultural studies
;
Older people Cross-cultural studies
;
Older people Cross-cultural studies
;
Aging Cross-cultural studies
;
Aged
;
Aging
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Demography
;
Public Policy
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
Aging
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Demography
;
Public Policy
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
Aged
;
Aging
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Demography
;
Public Policy
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
Aged
;
Aged
;
Aging
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Demography
;
Public Policy
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging
;
Aging
;
Older people
;
Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
;
Veroudering (demografie)
;
Cross-cultural studies
;
Electronic books
;
Far East
;
Germany
;
United Kingdom
;
United States
;
Electronic books Cross-cultural studies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Annotation Widely recognized experts present the first comparative analysis of recent developments among six Eastern and Western nations concerning population aging and its consequences. Chapters focus on demographic trends, sociocultural contexts, and policy implications. Nations selected as case studies include: the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The editors and contributors call attention to the varied trajectories and effects of population aging in culturally diverse societies that are often at different stages or on different paths of economic development. Such analyses bring into sharper focus those conditions that are unique, or similar, and emphasize the ways in which cultural stereotypes of aging and the elderly complicate our understanding of the effects of world-wide population aging
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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