Ageing in East Asia : challenges and policies for the twenty-first century / edited by Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2009
Descript
xvi, 184 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction : challenges to population ageing in East Asia / Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes -- Perspectives on ageing in East Asia : the embeddedness of institutions / Shih-jiunn Shi and Yeun-wen Ku -- Older people's income security in China : the challenges of population ageing / Hsiao-hung Nancy Chen and Tsung-hsi Fu -- Ageing in Japan : family changes and policy developments / Michihiko Tokoro -- Old-age security in Korea : the strengthened role of the state? / Gyu-jin Hwang -- Population ageing and social policy in Taiwan / Tsung-hsi Fu and Pau-ching Lu -- Retirement income protection in Hong Kong / Kee-lee Chou -- Ageing in Singapore : policy challenges and innovations / Angelique Chan -- Ageing in Malaysia : progress and prospects / Fon sim Ong, David R. Phillips and Tengku Aizan Hamid -- Ageing in Thailand : challenges and policy responses / Nongluck Pussayapibul, Samrit Srithamrongsawat and Kanitta Bundhamcharoen
SUBJECT
Population aging -- East Asia
Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- East Asia