Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China : Two Generations, One Decision / by Lin Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen, Lin, Author.

Series:

Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies, 2730-7964

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Social groups.

Welfare state.

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

Welfare.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

Welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137544407

1137544406