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An aging India — perspectives, prospects and policies
Author(s)	Phoebe S Liebig, S Irudaya Rajan
Journal title	Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 15, no 2/3, 2003
Pages	234 pp (whole issue)
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Ageing process ; Services ; Health services ; Social policy ; India.
Annotation	This volume is the result of ideas developed in communications between the two editors, after completion of Liebig's Fulbright to India in 1997. The authors wanted to set out that demographics of ageing also challenge developing countries, and that these countries are of paramount interest to the World Bank and United Nations. By 2025, both China and India will account for 38% of the world's people aged 60+. India is undergoing profound changes, although it is still a largely agricultural economy with high rates of poverty for all age groups. The major social and economic challenges facing India are transforming traditional family life, where the role of women in particular is affecting elder care. Eleven chapters cover these complex issues. Two concluding chapters cover current advocacy work undertaken by various bodies, and the gradual development of policy for an ageing population in India. This issue of Journal of Aging & Social Policy is co-published as a monograph by Haworth Press in 2004. (KJ/RH)
Accession Number	CPA-040308201 B
Classmark	BG: I: L: TM2: 7FA
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