New experiments with elderly care in rural China

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 139-148 - 1988
Jia Aimei1
1Institute of American Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

This article tells how the recent changes in rural China in terms of population aging, family structure, and economic developments affect elderly care, and describes the innovations being developed to meet the challenge of a huge elderly population in the second or third decade of the next century. The data are drawn from a case-study of a village in Hunan Province.

Tài liệu tham khảo

Peng, Chuanrong 1985 Selected Essays on Civil Affairs and Social Security. Beijing: Ministry of Civil Affairs. Ministry of Civil Affairs 1986 Statistical Report. Beijing: Ministry of Civil Affairs.