Evolving eldercare in contemporary China [electronic resource] : two generations, one decision / Lin Chen.
2016
HV1484.C62 C4386 2016eb
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Title
Evolving eldercare in contemporary China [electronic resource] : two generations, one decision / Lin Chen.
Author
Chen, Lin, 1983- author.
ISBN
9781137544407 (electronic book)
1137544406 (electronic book)
9781137546937
113754693X
1137544406 (electronic book)
9781137546937
113754693X
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages).
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HV1484.C62 C4386 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.60951
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series in Asian labor and welfare policies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: too great a task: taking care of aging parents
The setting: the nursing home and the sociocultural caregiving context in urban China
The theoretical lens: conceptualizing the decision-making process
Unexpected reality: etiology of family caregiving
Swinging pendulum: a power play between generations
Children parenting: first and last adventure
The end of an era: a new dialogue
Conclusion.
The setting: the nursing home and the sociocultural caregiving context in urban China
The theoretical lens: conceptualizing the decision-making process
Unexpected reality: etiology of family caregiving
Swinging pendulum: a power play between generations
Children parenting: first and last adventure
The end of an era: a new dialogue
Conclusion.