Ageing in Asia

Ageing in Asia

by Goodman, Roger Harper, Sarah

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"The book takes four key themes related to ageing - the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. In placing these Asian cases studies in the broader context of debates about, and policies on, ageing more generally, it brings them into the mainstream…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Ageing in Asia / edited by Roger Goodman and Sarah Harper.

Summary

"The book takes four key themes related to ageing - the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. In placing these Asian cases studies in the broader context of debates about, and policies on, ageing more generally, it brings them into the mainstream of comparative research on ageing from which they have been too often excluded."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:v, 122 pages : : illustrations 1 map ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780415445832, 0415445833, 0415464269, 9780415464260
  • oclc:ocn170035375
  • LC Classification:HQ1064.A78
  • Dewey Decimal:362.6095

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