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| The impact of modernisation and social policy on family care for older people in Japan | | Author(s) | Makoto Kono |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 29, part 2, April 2000 |
| Pages | pp 181-204 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Social policy ; Japan. |
| Annotation | In Japan, the ideology of familism has reproduced patriarchal family values. It successfully retained family centred welfare provision and gender inequality in informal care work, and ensured formal care services were residual. However, this advancement of modernisation has weakened the informal care sector's effectiveness, and the demand for care has increased steadily with the ageing of the population. Moreover, informal care based on the self-sacrifice of family carers tends to be less popular, a tendency particularly evident in opinions expressed by the younger generation and females. Furthermore, structural shifts in their working circumstances - particularly for women - makes the continuation of the patriarchal approach to informal care more difficult. In the field of care of older people, as part of the strategy for restructuring the Japanese welfare system, the emphasis is now more on market activities, which accords with the "residual welfare model of social policy" put forward by Titmuss in "Social policy: an introduction" (1974). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000608226 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: TM2: 7DT |
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