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Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Hardcover

Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations, Book 6

Aging & Elder CareAnthropology

ISBN10: 1789207886
ISBN13: 9781789207880
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 1 2020
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.64
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior's paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Themes include traditional ideals versus contemporary realities, the role of the state, patterns of familial and non-familial care, social stratification, and intersections of caregiving and death. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

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