As the world ages : rethinking a demographic crisis /
People are living longer, not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations. Western experts have long conceived of aging as a universal predicament--one that supposedly provokes the same welfare concerns in every context. In the twenty-first century, we must embrace a new approach that priori...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Coming of age
- Old age in young nations
- Growing old in the time of chronic disease
- The emergence of the international gerontologist
- New frontiers: aging experts in Asia and Africa
- The birth of global aging and its local afterlives
- International NGOs and the aged in the developing world
- Epilogue: From decolonization to globalization.