Overview
- Offers fresh insight into community care ecology of older adults’ daily life in urban China
- Addresses the development of HCBS programs over the past decade
- Focuses on the development of community-based eldercare in urban China, the transforming caregiving relationships emerging in HCBS programs, and daily interpersonal interactions in these programs
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Home- and community-based eldercare
- Social ecology/social-ecological framework
- Community-based service center
- Multi-level social interactions
- Chinese older adults
- Formal caregiving relationships
- Geographic Information System (GIS)/Elderly care location choice
- Elderly healthcare policy
- HCBS program evaluation
- Quality of elderly care
About this book
Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China. Bringing a timely discussion around HCBS development in Shanghai, it presents an interplay of formal caregiving relationships, evolving caregiving culture, and the trajectory of long-term care in China. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and government archives, this book explores the emergence of one of the most developed HCBS programs in Shanghai, its development over the past decade, its administration and services, resource allocation, staff members’ work experiences, older adults’ service experiences, as well as service evaluation and improvements. Offering fresh insight into new forms of caregiving in community settings, and shaping a new discourse on caregiving policy, this book is a key read for both students and practitioners in the fields of long-term care, gerontology, geriatrics, health care, and health policy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Lin Chen is an Associate Professor of Social Work in Fudan University, China. Her research interests include aging, long-term care, community care, and qualitative research methods. She published Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China: Two Generations, One Decision (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and coauthored Higher Education and Career Prospects in China (Springer, 2020).
Minzhi Ye is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She also works as a part-time research analyst at Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. Her research interests include long-term care, elderly abuse and neglect, LGBT elders, and cancer. Recently, she published a chapter in Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia (Springer, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community Eldercare Ecology in China
Authors: Lin Chen, Minzhi Ye
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4960-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4959-5Published: 13 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4962-5Published: 13 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4960-1Published: 12 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Care, Quality of Life Research, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Aging