Handbook of Asian Aging

by Hyungsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks

In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes in not much more than a quarter of a century. Contributors to "The Handbook of Aging" describe the magnitude of these changes and their effects on the aged and on societies attempting to adapt to the dramatic improvements in life expectancy brought on by rapid economic and social transformations. Asia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089503316X
• ISBN13: 9780895033161
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 396 Pages