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

प्रोफेसर सारा हार्पर एफआरएआई सीबीई एक ब्रिटिश जेरोन्टोलॉजिस्ट हैं, जिन्होंने ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड के जनसंख्या उम्र बढ़ने के संस्थान की स्थापना की, और ऑक्सफोर्ड विश्वविद्यालय के जेरोन्टोलॉजी के पहले प्रोफेसर बने। उन्होंने 2014 और 2017 के बीच प्रधान मंत्री विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी परिषद में सेवा की और 2017 में ग्रेट ब्रिटेन के रॉयल इंस्टीट्यूशन के निदेशक नियुक्त किए गए। सारा को 2018 में जनसांख्यिकी विज्ञान की सेवाओं के लिए सीबीई नियुक्त किया गया था।

Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography पीडीएफ सारा हार्पर

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.