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

Профессор Сара Харпер FRAI CBE - британский геронтолог, основавшая Оксфордский институт старения населения и ставшая первым профессором геронтологии Оксфордского университета. С 2014 по 2017 год она входила в Совет премьер-министра по науке и технологиям, а в 2017 году была назначена директором Королевского института Великобритании. Сара была назначена CBE в 2018 году за заслуги перед наукой о демографии.

Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography pdf Сара Харпер

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.