Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies: Two Generations, One Decision

Chen, Lin

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-04-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137546937

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54440-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 213