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Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy

Perspectives from Asia

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  • © 2022

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Editors:
  1. S Irudaya Rajan

    1. The International Institute of Migration and Development, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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  • The first comprehensive reference guide on aging, health and public policy
  • Presents contributions from both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on emerging social policies for the elderly
  • Exhaustively reviews the phenomenon of aging using both quantitative and qualitative methods
  • Shares insights from both seasoned and young researchers in the area of aging

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Table of contents (150 entries)

  1. “Loneliness Scares”: Crime Against Elderly

    • Manushi Srivastava, Priya Srivastava

  2. A Systematic Review and Case Studies of Health and Social Services Provided for Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    • June May-Ling Lee, Angelique Chan, Nicholas Graves

  3. Abuse and Neglect of the Empty Nest Elderly

    • Kalaiyarasi Vivekananthan, Rajkumar Ponnusamy

  4. Addressing Rural Elderly Issues

    • Vinod Shah

  5. Age Structural Transition and Its Impact on Population Aging in India

    • P. S. Nair

  6. Aged Care in Emerging Asia: New Demands, Evolving Responses, and Future Directions

    • Philip O’Keefe, Vasoontara Sbirakos Yiengprugsawan

  7. Aged Care Policy and Structural Burden: Transnational Ambiguities in India and Australia

    • Bianca Brijnath, Andrew Simon Gilbert

  8. Ageing and Social Security: India’s Public Policy Pursuit

    • M. H. Suryanarayana

  9. Ageing in Cuba: A Challenge for the Elderly’s Social Protection and the Organization of Care

    • Blandine Destremau

  10. Ageing Patterns and Concerns in the Arabian Gulf: A Systematic Review

    • Asharaf Abdul Salam

  11. Ageing, Religion, and Living Arrangements in Bhutan

    • Jagriti Gangopadhyay

  12. Ageism and Mental Health of the Elderly

    • Bhaswati Patnaik

  13. Aging and Social Protection in a Familialist Welfare Regime: Elderly Poverty and Social Pensions in Turkey

    • Başak Akkan, Cemre Canbazer Şanlı

  14. Aging in the Middle East with Special Focus on Iran

    • Ali Pezhhan, Anjana Ambika

  15. American Policy on Abuse, Neglect, and Crimes Against Elder Adults

    • Sonia Salari

  16. Association Between Amount of Social Assistance and Food Insecurity Among Elderly

    • Jadi Bala Komaraiah, Ajay Kumar Verma, Achal Kumar Gaur

  17. Association of Cognitive Impairment with Migrant Status Among Older Adults in India: A Cross-Sectional Study

    • Shobhit Srivastava, Ruchi Singh, Prem Shankar Mishra, Alok Aditya

  18. Association of Financial Stress and Cognitive Health

    • Srei Chanda, Kajori Banerjee

  19. Association of Living Arrangement, Economic Independence, and Health Spending on Hospitalization Among Elderly in India

    • Anjali Dash

  20. Beyond Economics: Noneconomic Contributions of Elderly

    • S. Irudaya Rajan, U. R. Arya
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About this book

This handbook presents the latest information on all aspects of global aging, with a focus on Asia, including policies, age-associated diseases and conditions, health services, long-term care, living arrangements, income and social security, preventing abuse, and the impact of migration on the elderly. Furthermore, the book presents a synthesis of research on population aging, social protection policies, crimes against the elderly, new analyses of trends, and discussions of major social policy strategies. Written by academics, practitioners and policymakers in the field of gerontology, the book offers an informative resource for demographers, gerontologists, economists, anthropologists and other social scientists studying various facets of aging, as well as students in the social and health sciences.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • The International Institute of Migration and Development, Thiruvananthapuram, India

    S Irudaya Rajan

About the editor

S. Irudaya Rajan is a Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India. He is the President of International Institute for Population Sciences Alumni Association, Mumbai. He was the President of the Association of Gerontology (AGI, India) as well as Kerala Economic Association (KEA). He has close to four decades of research experience and has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, economic, social and health implications of aging. He is the lead author of the book named India’s Elderly: Burden or Challenge? (1999) and has edited.co-edited various books; Social Security for the Elderly: Experiences from South Asia (2008); India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerability (2017); Elderly Care in India: Societal and State Responses (Springer, 2017) and Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly in India (Springer, 2018). He developed the first longitudinal Ageing Survey in Kerala (India) in 2004; repeated every three years,it completed its sixth wave in 2019. The second longitudinal Ageing Survey in Kerala started in 2013, completed its third wave in 2019.

Professor Rajan has been involved in several projects on aging funded by the United Nations (UN), United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the World Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO), HelpAge International, South Asian Network of Economic Institutes, Indo-Dutch Program on Alternatives in Development, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, International Development Research Centre and Indian Council for Social Science Research. He has also undertaken considerable research on migration and is the editor the annual series, India Migration Report as well as editor-in-chief of the journal Migration and Development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Asia

  • Editors: S Irudaya Rajan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1914-4Due: 27 June 2024

  • Number of Pages: X, 2365

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Demography, Health Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health

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