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  title info:
    title: Aging in Comparative Perspective
    sub title: Processes and Policies
  name:
    name part: Cook, Ian Gillespie.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Halsall, Jamie.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 96 p. online resource.
  abstract: Aging in Comparative Perspective Processes and Policies Ian G. Cook and Jamie Halsall People are living longer—in particular, the over-85 population is increasing in many countries around the globe. But while this fact should be considered a proud testament to improved standards of living, it is often lost in contentious debates over the state of health care and the future of benefit programs. Aging in Comparative Perspective explores this complex scenario on a world scale, as the global recession drives political change and shifts in cultural traditions. This timely volume analyzes the aging process in various countries, with special focus on the stresses placed on their economies as the numbers of elders increase with fewer young people available to support them due to declining birthrates. The authors review elder policies, such as entitlement programs, that have been put into place, are being considered, or are in danger of being curtailed. At the same time, helpful light is shed on another side of the elderly that receives less attention: active, independent, and benefiting their families and communities. This ongoing evolution is presented in national and global context in seven representative countries: U.S., U.K., Japan, Sweden, China, South Africa, and Nepal. Aging in Comparative Perspective makes a major contribution to our understanding of the wider impact of growing old, and will find interested readers among gerontologists, sociologists, public health policymakers, and anthropologists.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: An Aging World -- Chapter 2: Aging in the United States -- Chapter 3: Aging in the UK -- Chapter 4: Aging in Sweden -- Chapter 5: Aging in Japan -- Chapter 6: Aging in China -- Chapter 7: Aging in Nepal -- Chapter 8: Aging in South Africa -- Chapter 9: Lessons to be Learned.
  note: by Ian Gillespie Cook, Jamie Halsall.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics
  subject:
    topic: Medical research
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics/Gerontology
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  classification: HQ1060-1064
  classification: 305.26
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Perspectives on Aging ; 1
  identifier: 9781461419785
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1978-5
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    record creation date: 120202
    record change date: 20151108231327.0
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