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基本説明
It provides state-of-the-art reviews relating population aging to such topics as internal and international migration, pensions and income, disability, formal and informal health care, kinship and family relationships, and age segregation. In addition, there are chapters dealing with population aging in a variety of countries and regions of particular interest.
Full Description
Peter Uhlenberg The classic handbook of population, The Study of Pop- by the beginning of the twenty-first century and p- ulation edited by Philip Hauser and Otis Dudley Dun- jections show that by 2035 there will be twice as many can, was published in 1959. As described on the dust over age 65 as under age 15. In Italy and in Japan, jacket, this book was "...an encyclopedic summary of where extraordinarily low fertility is persisting, p- the field of demography, ranging from its historical jections indicate that by 2050 there will be three times beginnings to promising subjects for its future study..." as many people over age 80 as children under age 5. Not only was "population aging" not included as the Although population aging is progressing at different title of one of the 28 chapters in this encyclopedic vol- paces in different parts of the world, significant po- ume on demographic knowledge but the term was not lation aging is expected in every region of the world even included in the index. Demographers at that time in coming decades. The emergence of global popu- did, of course, understand the determinants of a popula- tion aging as one of the most important demographic tion's age distribution and a discussion of this topic was trends in the world today has stimulated scholars to included.
Contents
Overview.- How Populations Age.- Data Sources for Studying Aging.- Global Population Aging: History and Prospects.- Aging Populations.- Population Ageing in Italy and Southern Europe.- Demography of Aging in the Nordic Countries.- Rapidly Aging Populations: Russia/Eastern Europe.- Rapid Population Aging and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Japan.- Population Aging in China.- Population Aging in the Koreas.- Population Aging in Canada and the United States.- Aging in Mexico and Latin America.- Ageing in West Africa.- Demography of Aging in Arab Countries.- Migration and Aging.- Geographic Mobility and Aging in Place.- International Retirement Migration.- Immigrants and Aging.- Replacement Migration.- Population Aging and Economic Issues.- Public Pension Programs - Social Security.- Private Pensions in International Perspective.- Employment at Older Ages.- Population Retirement Patterns.- Income Inequality in Later Life.- Population Aging, Longevity, and Health.- Mortality Patterns in Late Life.- Active Life Expectancy: A Central Measure of Population Health.- Demography of Disability.- Social Class, Health and Longevity.- Health Care and Aging.- Population Aging and Health Care Policy in Cross-National Perspective.- Health Care Expenditures.- Demography of Informal Caregiving.- Population Aging and Social Relationships.- Childless Old Age.- Marital History and Well-Being in Later Life.- Gender, Aging and Widowhood.- Future of Aging.- The Future of Human Longevity.- Experience, Social Structure and Later Life: Meaning and Old Age in an Aging Society.
