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Title Older persons in Southeast Asia : an emerging asset / edited by Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2009

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Description 1 online resource (457 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; PART I: Introduction; PART II: Old-Age Income Security; PART III: Employment and Other Sources of Financial Contribution; PART IV: Ageing, Migration, and Development; PART V: Roles of Government and Civil Society; Index
Summary The rapid Asian fertility transitions of the last few decades will lead to population ageing in the coming decades in one country after another. Societies can choose how they will respond to the rising share of the elderly, but there is no choice about the inevitable demographic trend. In this important volume, ably edited by Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Aris Ananta, demographers, economists, sociologists, and anthropologists analyse the implications of population ageing for family and community ... The rapid Asian fertility transitions of the last few decades will lead to population ageing in the coming decades in one country after another
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Aging -- Government policy -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
Older people -- Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Older people -- Medical care -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
Older people -- Government policy -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
Aging -- Government policy
Older people -- Economic conditions
Older people -- Medical care
Older people -- Social conditions
Southeast Asia
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Arifin, Evi Nurvidya, editor.
Ananta, Aris, editor.
ISBN 9789812309457
9812309454