The graying of the world : who will care for the frail elderly? /

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Imprint:New York : Haworth Press, c1994.
Description:xvii, 328 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1728319
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Other authors / contributors:Olson, Laura Katz, 1945-
ISBN:1560243635 (acid-free paper)
1560243643 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction / Laura Katz Olson
  • Ch. 2. Public Policy and Privatization: Long-Term Care in the United States / Laura Katz Olson
  • Ch. 3. Caring for the Frail Elderly in Sweden / Gerdt Sundstrom and Mats Thorslund
  • Ch. 4. New Challenges for Elder Care in Finland / Riitta-Liisa Heikkinen
  • Ch. 5. The "Graying" of Israel / David Guttmann and Ariela Lowenstein
  • Ch. 6. The Care of Frail Older People in Britain: Current Policies and Future Prospects / Alan Walker and Lorna Warren
  • Ch. 7. Canadian Long-Term Care: Its Escalating Costs for Women / Sheila Marjorie Neysmith
  • Ch. 8. French Old-Age Policies and the Frail Elderly / Michel Frossard and Anne-Marie Guillemard
  • Ch. 9. Care of the Frail Elderly in Germany / Marianne Heinemann-Knoch
  • Ch. 10. Japan's Welfare Vision: Dealing with a Rapidly Increasing Elderly Population / Harry Kaneharu Nishio
  • Ch. 11. The Changing Role of the Elderly in the People's Republic of China / Philip G. Olson
  • Ch. 12. The Elderly in Yugoslavia: A Forgotten Group in Time of Crisis / James H. Seroka.