TitleAgeing 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

  1. Population aging -- East Asia
  2. Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- East Asia
  3. East Asia -- Social policy

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