Ageing in East Asia
Subtitle: challenges and policies for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes.
Contributors: Fu, Tsung-hsi.; Hughes, Rhidian.
Series: Comparative development and policy in Asia series -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415454650; 9780203881828
Subjects: Population aging -- East Asia; Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- East Asia; East Asia -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Hill; title: Introduction : challenges to population ageing in East Asia  / Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes; title: Perspectives on ageing in East Asia : the embeddedness of institutions /  Shih-jiunn Shi and Yeun-wen Ku; title: Older people's income security in China : the challenges of population ageing / Hsiao-hung Nancy Chen and Tsung-hsi Fu; title: Ageing in Japan : family changes and policy developments / Michihiko Tokoro; title: Old-age security in Korea : the strengthened role of the state? / Gyu-jin Hwang; title: Population ageing and social policy in Taiwan / Tsung-hsi Fu and Pau-ching Lu; title: Retirement income protection in Hong Kong / Kee-lee Chou; title: Ageing in Singapore : policy challenges and innovations / Angelique Chan; title: Ageing in Malaysia : progress and prospects / Fon sim Ong, David R. Phillips and Tengku Aizan Hamid; title: Ageing in Thailand : challenges and policy responses / Nongluck Pussayapibul, Samrit Srithamrongsawat and Kanitta Bundhamcharoen.