The Care Of The Elderly In Japan

Author : Yongmei Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134350384

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The Care of the Elderly in Japan by Yongmei Wu Pdf

The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems of supporting them by a diminishing working population and a diminishing tax base. This book, based on extensive fieldwork in a Japanese institution for the elderly, explores the whole issue of ageing and responses to it in Japan, and compares the Japanese approach in these matters with Western approaches. It discusses how people in Japan have changed their perceptions towards family responsibility, the institutionalization of the elderly, and rights of welfare. It also discusses how institutions for the elderly are run in Japan and how their management differs from that in the West.

Author : Yongmei Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134350341

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The Care of the Elderly in Japan by Yongmei Wu Pdf

The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems of supporting them by a diminishing working population and a diminishing tax base. This book, based on extensive fieldwork in a Japanese institution for the elderly, explores the whole issue of ageing and responses to it in Japan, and compares the Japanese approach in these matters with Western approaches. It discusses how people in Japan have changed their perceptions towards family responsibility, the institutionalization of the elderly, and rights of welfare. It also discusses how institutions for the elderly are run in Japan and how their management differs from that in the West.

Author : Susan Orpett Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134594122

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Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US by Susan Orpett Long Pdf

In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States to explicitly compare how policies, practices and interpretations of elder care are evolving at the turn of the century.

Author : Yongmei Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Older people
ISBN : 0203389514

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The Care of the Elderly in Japan by Yongmei Wu Pdf

Author : C. K. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family life surveys
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028875230

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Caring for the Elderly by C. K. Brown Pdf

Author : Yayoi Saitō,Reiko Abe Auestad,Kari Wærness
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1920901957

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Meeting the Challenges of Elder Care by Yayoi Saitō,Reiko Abe Auestad,Kari Wærness Pdf

Based on comparative and collaborative studies of Japanese and Norwegian specialists, this book focuses upon the critical analysis of 'rationality of care' with an empirical examination of care services in the two countries. The book argues that elder care is not simply the act of labor, but that of love, and it looks at such aspects of care as home help, new public management, and social enterprise. Predicated on the historical experience and contemporary reality of elder care in both countries, the study confronts the commercial rationalization of care practices and explores their desirable forms.

Author : Mayumi Hayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317319443

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The Care of Older People by Mayumi Hayashi Pdf

Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.

Author : Anja Hellmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783640606559

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Japan: Health-, Elderly- and Child- Care in comparison to the German system: based on a case study by Anja Hellmann Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,6, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, language: English, abstract: The development of the Japanese society is characterized by a lot of similarities to Germany. This is why I have chosen the country to compare especially the Health Care System with the German one. Not only the economic achievements are comparable, but first of all the Demographic Change. In 2020 28% of the Japanese population will be over 65 years. In Germany it is prognosticated to be around 21% (Tab.1). Moreover the Japanese Health Care System is known as own of the cheapest of the industrialized countries. This leads to the question of adoption of some parts or ideas from the Japanese system to the German one. In my elaboration I want to describe a case of a family in Japan regarding the family and work situation, the Health Care System in general and additionally the system of taking care of the elderly and the children. My example family has got following parts: The mother is 42 years old, she works as a nurse in an outpatient department of a local government. In addition she has to take care of her parents almost every day. The father is 45 years old, works as an engineer and likes his hobby, which is driving motorbikes. The daughter of them is 7 and their son is 13, both go to school. The grandmother has got dementia, she is 76 years old and lives together with her husband, who is 76 and has got diabetes. They live in the neighborhood of their children and grandchildren. Case 1: Values, culture, roles of the family members. Case 2: Health Care System of Japan in comparison to the German one. What happens after a traffic accident of the father? Case 3: Elderly and Child Care in general and in the case of the accident and depression of the mother.

Author : Pedro Olivares-Tirado,Nanako Tamiya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789400778757

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Trends and Factors in Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System by Pedro Olivares-Tirado,Nanako Tamiya Pdf

Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly. In this context, ageing societies has many valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's experience dealing with its hyper-aged society and particularly from its strategies to ensure the financial sustainability of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system. Based on an exhaustive literature review, and the results from six original researches on long-term care expenditures in Japan (LTCE) conducted during a doctoral program, the book provides a comprehensive view in analyzing trends and factors associated with increasing expenditures in the Long-Term Care Insurance system in Japan. The book address relevant topics such as; the main socio-demographic changes experienced by the Japanese society during the last three decades, predictors of the LTCE, measuring efficiency in nursing homes, the impact of the LTCI 2005-reform to contain expenditures, cost-effectiveness of the in-home and community based services and institutional LTCE in the last year of life. The book end with a discussion on futures challenges and strategies oriented to contribute with the sustainability of LTCI system in Japan.

Author : Masakazu Washio,Chikako Kiyohara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811317620

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Health Issues and Care System for the Elderly by Masakazu Washio,Chikako Kiyohara Pdf

This book sheds new light on health issues that concern both aging patients and their caregivers, and provides practical and in-depth insights. The respective chapters address various topics including locomotive organ disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease and more. Japan is currently experiencing a massive growth in its elderly population, and at a speed unmatched elsewhere in the world. As such, this edited volume offers a valuable guide for countries that are likely to experience an increase in their elderly population, especially with regard to the epidemiological findings and cohort studies in Japan that it presents. Health Issues and Care System for the Elderly offers a valuable resource for both new and established researchers, doctors, healthcare workers, and students who are seeking information on health problems involving the elderly in the field of public health and gerontology.

Author : Yohko Tsuji
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978819573

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Through Japanese Eyes by Yohko Tsuji Pdf

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the panhuman experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders’ lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, the author’s lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors’ lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society as Tsuji herself gets to know American culture and grows into senescence herself. Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.

Author : Naoki Ikegami,John Creighton Campbell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472105388

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Containing Health Care Costs in Japan by Naoki Ikegami,John Creighton Campbell Pdf

DIVA comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system. /div

Author : Paul Midford,John Creighton Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137402639

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Eldercare Policies in Japan and Scandinavia by Paul Midford,John Creighton Campbell Pdf

These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future research) about how differently policies in this important area can be carried out in different countries.

Author : Iza Kavedžija
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812251364

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Making Meaningful Lives by Iza Kavedžija Pdf

What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, the elderly experience of ikigai is considered a public health concern. Without a relevant model for meaningful and joyful older age, the increasing older population of Japan must create new cultural forms that center the ikigai that comes from old age. In Making Meaningful Lives, Iza Kavedžija provides a rich anthropological account of the lives and concerns of older Japanese women and men. Grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Kavedžija offers an intimate narrative analysis of the existential concerns of her active, independent subjects. Alone and in groups, the elderly residents of these communities make sense of their lives and shifting ikigai with humor, conversation, and storytelling. They are as much providers as recipients of care, challenging common images of the elderly as frail and dependent, while illustrating a more complex argument: maintaining independence nevertheless requires cultivating multiple dependences on others. Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of life's stages.

Author : Jesús RIVERA NAVARRO,Emilia RIESCO VÁZQUEZ
Publisher : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Care For The Elderly And Japanese Welfare State by Jesús RIVERA NAVARRO,Emilia RIESCO VÁZQUEZ Pdf

Aunque el envejecimiento de la población sea hoy ya en sí mismo un tema de interés para cualquier país y la comparación de las políticas públicas dirigidas a afrontarlo la forma más elemental y siempre fructífera de abordarlo, el estudio específico de los casos japonés y español (y, por extensión, europea) de sus elementos comunes y sus diferencias, tuvo, tiene y tendrá un especial interés para los investigadores, las autoridades y los actores sociales implicados en el problema. Envejecimiento de la población en España y Japón: estudio comparativo y posibles implicaciones para Europa y Asia Pacífico surge a partir de la celebración entre el 13 y el 17 de octubre de 2008 de un simposium, en el centro cultural Hispano-Japonés de la Universidad de Salamanca, con la participación de profesores de Europa y de Japón. El éxito de este seminario determinó la voluntad de plasmar en un libro las aportaciones más interesantes de cada uno de los brillantes investigadores que allí participaron.