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Ageing in Ghana / Akye Essuman and C. Charles Mate-Kole -- Aging in Nigeria / Samuel O. Ebimgbo and Uzoma O. Okoye -- Growing old in an Egyptian family: beyond the bare statistics / Zeinab Khadr -- Life is hard and getting harder: the experience of aging in Ethiopia / Messay Gebremariam Kotecho, Samson Chane, Getachew Gebeyaw, Abraham Zelalem, Meriem Dawud and Margaret E. Adamek -- Aging in Kenya: older Kenyans in the twenty-first century / Maria G. Cattell) -- Health state and functional capacity for community-dwelling elders in Malawi / Charles Nyasa, Enock Madalisto Chisati and Anthony Mwakikunga -- Healthcare, poverty and ageing in the Middle East and North Africa / A. Abyad -- Elder abuse in South Asia / Mala Kapur Shankardass -- Ageing in China: trends, challenges and opportunities / Chang Liu, Shuai Zhou and Xue Bai -- Aging and family in postwar Japan: how cultural factors undermine the diversity of aging / Kimiko Tanaka -- Ageing in India: an intricate phenomenon / Leyanna Susan George -- Aging in South Korea with dynamic social and cultural changes / BoRin Kim -- Aging in Nepal / Hom Nath Chalise -- Unravelling the threads of successful aging in Singapore / Mohamad Hazirah and Ad Maulod -- What constitutes "successful aging" in a Tibetan context? / Geoff Childs, Melvyn Goldstein, Puchung Wangdui, and Namgyal Choedup -- Elder abuse in Vietnam: a gender perspective / Duc Dung Le, Hoang Ngoc Truc Dang and Tuan Anh Nguyen -- Ageing in indigenous Australians / Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Simone Nash, Sarita Ghaju and Tinashe Dune -- The beauty of growing old in the Republic of Palau / Ritabelle Fernandes -- Aging in Turkey: social, psychological and financial issues / Sevilay Şenol Çelik and Azize Atli Özbaş -- The role of physical activity community interventions in the quality of life of elderly people in Brazil / Jorge Lopes Cavalcante Neto and Tatiane Targino Gomes Draghi -- Generativity and aging well for Alaska natives / Jordan P. Lewis -- Aging in First Nations communities: adapting a fall prevention program in British Columbia, Canada / Vicky J. Scott -- No nā Hulu Kūpuna: a native Hawaiian view of elderhood / Shelley Muneoka, Kathryn L. Braun, Rachel Burrage and Kilohana Haitsuka -- Dementia in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America / Renata Naylor, Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Solomon Nyame, Daniel Boateng and Daniel C. Mograbi -- Fear of falling / A. Abyad -- Aging and aging perceptions in nonindustrialized indigenous societies / Piotr Sorokowski and Wojciech Maecki. |
| Summary, etc.: |
This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder abuse. It was thought that in Africa or Asia, elders were revered and taken care of. This certainly used to be the case. But the Western way has moved into these places, and we now find that elders are often left on their own or in institutions, as younger people have migrated to other cities and even countries. Grandparents often find themselves being parents to their grandchildren, a far cry from the kind of life they believed they would have as they aged. This book will explore all these issues and will be of use to students and researchers in this relatively new field. |
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