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Ageing in rural China
— impacts of increasing diversity in family and community resources | | Author(s) | Alun E Joseph, David R Phillips |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 153-168 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Services ; Family care ; Rural areas ; Social policy ; China. |
| Annotation | Most of China's population lives in rural areas, where a pattern is emerging of very uneven support for older people. This paper examines the interconnection of two phenomena, population ageing and modernisation, in contemporary China; and in particular, how these combine to present challenges to the provision of care for older people. There is strong evidence that the family in China will continue to be seen, emotionally and in policy, as the main source of economic and social support for older people. The thesis advanced is that in future, there will be much greater diversity in both the ability of rural families to care for their older kin and the capacity of rural communities to support older people and their family carers. The paper is organised in three major sections. The first considers population ageing in China, and the social, economic and policy contexts. The second focuses on the rural dimension, and offers explanations for emerging differentiation in community contexts for ageing. The third presents a case study of Zhejiang Province to illustrate the special circumstances of older people in a prosperous modernising rural economy. Policy implications are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991012221 A |
| Classmark | BG: I: P6:SJ: RL: TM2: 7DC |
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