With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China. This study examines how a rapidly growing aging population, the one-child policy, and economic reform in urban China pose unprecedented challenges to the country’s ingrained tradition of family caregiving. It presents interviews of matched elders and their children from a government-sponsored nursing home in Shanghai and analyzes the decision-making process of institutionalization. This book offers fresh insight into the evolving culture and arrangements of caregiving in contemporary Chinese society, illuminating the diverse needs for long-term care of Chinese elders–the world’s largest aging population–in the coming decades.

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Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Lin Chen

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Lin Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Fudan University, China.

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Book Title: Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China
Book Subtitle: Two Generations, One Decision
Authors: Lin Chen
Series Title: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54440-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54693-7Published: 12 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54440-7Published: 11 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-7956
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7964
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 213
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Politics of the Welfare State

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