Global Aging and Challenges to Families (The Life Course and Aging)

ISBN: 9780202306872

出版社: Aldine Transaction

出版年: 2003-09

页数: 387

定价: USD 27.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This volume focuses on the emerging consequences of global aging for families and for the well-being of elders in those families. Contributors examine the changing life course, and trace an astonishing change over recent decades in the expected, traditional life course of individuals, especially in industrialized societies. They also examine worldwide changes in families and family structures that have occurred over the past fifty years: some due to a changing life course; others, to the consequence of remarkable changes in the average family structure; still others, to the result of changes in values and political expectations regarding the role of the state in individuals' lives.