Healthy aging in sociocultural context
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Healthy aging in sociocultural context
(Routledge advances in sociology, 81)
Routledge, 2013
- : hbk
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context examines two emerging trends facing countries throughout the world: population aging and population diversity. It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of these timely issues by examining their implications for healthy aging, a topic of increasing importance to policy-makers, planners, researchers, families, and individuals of all ages.
The book focuses on three countries that provide important examples of these emerging global trends - Japan, Sweden, and the United States. Japan and Sweden are at the forefront in terms of healthy life expectancies, while the United States represents a country with considerable diversity. Examining these three countries together provides a unique opportunity to address questions such as the following: How can we understand differences in healthy life expectancy among different countries? What role might diversity play? And how might these effects change as geographic mobility increases diversity, even among societies that historically have been relatively homogeneous?
Table of Contents
Part 1: Healthy Aging and Policy Implications in the United States 1. Healthy Aging in Community Context Andrew E. Scharlach 2. Healthy Aging in the United States William A. Satariano 3. Healthy Aging for Diverse Older Adults in the United States Winston Tseng Part 2: Healthy Aging and Policy Implications in Sweden 4. Healthy Aging in Sweden Gerdt Sundstroem and Mats Thorslund 5. Healthy Aging Among Immigrants in Sweden: What We Know and Need to Find Out Sandra Torres Part 3: Healthy Aging and Policy Implications in Japan 6. Health Care System and Policy Implications for Older Adults in Japan Takeshi Nakagawa and Yasuyuki Gondo 7. Healthy Aging and Intergenerational Intervention in Japan Takayuki Sasaki 8. Healthy Aging and Policy Implications for Older Immigrants in Japan Kazumi Hoshino Part 4: Future Directions 9. Sociocultural Support Model for Healthy Aging for Older Immigrants: Perspectives from the United States, Sweden, and Japan Kazumi Hoshino 10. Conclusion Andrew Scharlach and Kazumi Hoshino
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