Lin Chen

Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China (eBook, PDF)

Two Generations, One Decision

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137544407
• Artikelnr.: 44884474

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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