Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography PDF

Professorin Sarah Harper FRAI CBE ist eine britische Gerontologin, die das Oxford Institute of Population Ageing gründete und die erste Professorin für Gerontologie an der Universität Oxford wurde. Sie war von 2014 bis 2017 im Rat des Premierministers für Wissenschaft und Technologie tätig und wurde 2017 zur Direktorin der Royal Institution of Great Britain ernannt. Sarah wurde 2018 zur CBE für ihre Verdienste um die Wissenschaft der Demographie ernannt.

Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography pdf von Sarah Harper

The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. In placing these Asian cases studies in the broader context of debates about, and policies on, ageing more generally, it brings them into the mainstream of comparative research on ageing from which they have been too often excluded. As the studies show, the relationship between ageing and poverty is a complex one and often reflects policy towards the aged rather than that the aged themselves are unproductive and dependent. Ageing, moreover, can no longer be considered as simply a national question; we also need to consider the implications of its global dimension in terms of issues such as human rights and quality of life.