Full Description
Population aging and rapid socioeconomic changes are weakening family-based elder care while escalating the needs for long-term care services for older adults in China. This book presents insightful analysis and research findings on a wide range of policy-relevant issues related to long-term care for older adults in China.
China's population is aging at an unprecedented pace. Currently, older Chinese adults aged 65 and over account for approximately 15% (or 208 million) of the total population, a figure projected to exceed 30% (or 390 million) by 2050. Rapid demographic and socioeconomic changes in China are weakening traditional family-based elder care while increasing the demand for long-term care services. This book features a collection of studies that provides timely analyses and fresh insights into a wide range of policy-relevant topics related to long-term care for older adults in China. These topics are explored in the volume's nine chapters, organized under four main themes: migration, caregiving, and elder care challenges; long-term care service users, frontline workers, and workforce challenges; unmet needs across the care continuum in healthcare, long-term care, and end-of-life care; and long-term care financing. Grounded in a thoughtful analysis of the best available empirical data and employing rigorous and cutting- edge research methods, the findings from these studies contribute to building scientific evidence where it is lacking and support evidence-informed long-term care policymaking and practice to address the mounting challenges of population aging in China.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy.
Contents
Introduction: Embracing Challenges for Population Aging in China: Building Scientific Evidence to Inform Long-Term Care Policymaking and Practice 1. Issues of Elder Care among Migrant Workers in Contemporary Rural China: Filial Piety Redefined from a Foucauldian Perspective 2. Existing Datasets to Study the Impact of Internal Migration on Caregiving Arrangements among Older Adults in China 3. Effects of Care Arrangement on the Age of Institutionalization among Community-dwelling Chinese Older Adults 4. Domestic Helpers as Frontline Workers in Home-Based Long-Term Care in China: Opportunities and Challenges 5. Process and Structure: Service Satisfaction and Recommendation in a Community-based Elderly Meal Service in Shanghai 6. Unmet Needs and Associated Factors among Community-living Older People with Disability in China: 2005-2014 7. Quality of Death among Older Adults in China: The Role of Medical Expenditure and Timely Medical Treatment 8. Does Welfare Receipt Change Consumption on Health among Older Families? The Case of China 9. China's Ambitious Policy Experiment with Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Promises, Challenges, and Prospects
