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Widely recognized experts present the first comparative analysis of recent developments among six Eastern and Western nations, concerning population aging and its consequences. Chapters focus on demographic trends, sociocultural contexts, and policy implications. Nations selected as case studies include: the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The editors and contributors call attention to the varied trajectories and effects of population aging in culturally diverse societies that are often at different stages or on different paths of economic development. Such analyses bring into sharper focus those conditions that are unique, or similar, and emphasize the ways in which cultural stereotypes of aging and the elderly complicate our understanding of the effects of worldwide population aging.

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Vern L. Bengtson, PhD, is AARP/university professor of gerontology emeritus and research professor, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Kyong-Dong Kim, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. George C. Myers, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Emeritus Director of the Center for Demographic Studies at Duke University in the United States. Ki-Soo Eun, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.

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