Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China

Two Generations, One Decision
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-54693-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4048 g

Reihe: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Lin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Too Great a Task: Taking Care of Aging Parents 2. The Setting: The Nursing Home and the Sociocultural Caregiving Context in Urban China 3. The Theoretical Lens: Conceptualizing the Decision-Making Process 4. Unexpected Reality: Etiology of Family Caregiving 5. Swinging Pendulum: A Power Play 6. Children Parenting: First and Last Adventure 7. The End of an Era: A New Dialogue

Über Autor(innen)

Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.