Ageing in East Asia (eBook, PDF)

Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-First Century
Redaktion: Fu, Tsung-Hsi; Hughes, Rhidian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception. Demographics show that countries in East Asia either have the highest proportion of older people, or the speed at which their population is ageing is faster than anywhere else in the world. This book explores the causes and trends of population ageing in eight countries, and discusses the challenges and impacts of population ageing on public policies. East Asian countries have developed new policies to meet older people's needs - across health, social care, income maintenance, employment and housing.

Ageing in East Asia provides the first comprehensive introduction to ageing policies in East Asian countries. The book:

• explores causes and trends of population ageing
• discusses the challenges and impacts of population ageing on public policies
• examines the important strategic and theoretical policy contexts of ageing policies in East Asian countries
• covers eight East Asian countries in dedicated chapters: examining Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

This volume brings East Asian countries clearly into focus, and illuminates the state of welfare development internationally. It provides an important resource for lecturers, students, researchers and policy makers with interest in East Asia, older people and welfare policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134051281
• Artikelnr.: 42980478

Autorenporträt

Tsung-hsi Fu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work, National Taiwan Univerity. Rhidian Hughes is Visiting Senior Lecturer at King's College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Challenges to Population Ageing in East Asia 2.
Perspectives on Ageing in East Asia: The Embeddedness of Institutions 3.
Older People's Income Security in China: The Challenges of Population
Ageing 4. Ageing in Japan: Family Changes and Policy Developments 5.
Old-Age Security in Korea: The Strengthened Role of the State? 6.
Population Ageing and Social Policy in Taiwan 7. Retirement Income
Protection in Hong Kong 8. Ageing in Singapore: Policy Challenges and
Innovations 9. Ageing in Malaysia: Progress and Prospects 10. Ageing in
Thailand: Challenges and Policy Responses. Index