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Author: Longtao He ,
Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032183794
ISBN 10: 1032183799
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 01 April 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
By bringing together Chinese and Indian views of eldercare under five key themes-filial piety, family care, institutionalized care, issues of care for the marginalized elderly, and eldercare research issues-this book allows readers to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that increasing population, aging, shifting cultural norms, and relatively limited public resources in both China and India have posed for the eldercare systems in these countries. This book builds up a strong body of interdisciplinary analyses of important issues under each of these themes and concludes with an illuminating synthesis of what has been presented. There are hardly any books available in the field of social gerontology with a focus on India and China. This book raises important issues about the status of eldercare in China and India and provides a meaningful starting point for further investigations. I think not only Chinese and Indian scholars, but also many international scholars would be interested in reading this book. ---Fang Zhao ( ), Professor, School of Social Development and Social Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China This book tries to capture the current scenario of eldercare in both countries by taking both positive and negative aspects into account. For example, it highlights the negative societal perception of older people, especially in China, despite it being known for glorifying virtues of filial piety. The book also emphasises that the elderly population is not a homogeneous category. For the experiences of marginalized elderly (single elderly in India and the elderly in China who have lost their only child) may not be the experiences of all elderly. --- Shivangi Patel, PhD candidate, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi
By bringing together Chinese and Indian views of eldercare under five key themes-filial piety, family care, institutionalized care, issues of care for the marginalized elderly, and eldercare research issues-this book allows readers to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that increasing population, aging, shifting cultural norms, and relatively limited public resources in both China and India have posed for the eldercare systems in these countries. This book builds up a strong body of interdisciplinary analyses of important issues under each of these themes and concludes with an illuminating synthesis of what has been presented. There are hardly any books available in the field of social gerontology with a focus on India and China. This book raises important issues about the status of eldercare in China and India and provides a meaningful starting point for further investigations. I think not only Chinese and Indian scholars, but also many international scholars would be interested in reading this book. ---Fang Zhao ( ), Professor, School of Social Development and Social Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Author Information
Longtao He is an associate professor in the Research Institute of Social Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. His research interests focus on qualitative health research, medical social work, and social work ethics. He has published a sole-authored book titled ""Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China"" with Springer Nature. His articles appear in Qualitative Health Research, Journal of Religion & Health, Applied Research in Quality of Life, British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Ageing, BMJ Open, Journal of Ageing and Social Policy, and so on. Jagriti Gangopadhyay is currently an Assistant Professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She is also the faculty coordinator for the Center for Women’s Studies. She did her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. For her research, she has received funding from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, India, National Commission for Women, India, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Recently she was also awarded the Shastri Publication Grant by Shastri Indo Canadian Institute for her published monograph, ""Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond, published by Springer. She has published in journals of international and national repute such as Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer, Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Ageing International, Springer, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Contributions to Indian Sociology, Sage.
