Advancing Long-Term Care Policy and Research in China

Population aging and rapid socioeconomic changes are weakening family-based elder care while escalating the needs for long-term care services for older adults in China. This book presents insightful analysis and research findings on a wide range of policy relevant issues related to long-term care for older adults in China.

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Zhanlian Feng, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care program at RTI International, USA. He has over 20 years of experience in long-term care and health services research in the United States and internationally. He has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters, commentaries, and reports.

Bei Wu, PhD, Vice Dean for Research and Dean's Professor in Global Health at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, USA, is an internationally recognized leader in gerontology. She has led numerous NIH-funded studies on oral health, dementia caregiving, and long- term care. A prolific researcher, she also mentors scholars worldwide.

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Introduction: Embracing Challenges for Population Aging in China: Building Scientific Evidence to Inform Long-Term Care Policymaking and Practice 1. Issues of Elder Care among Migrant Workers in Contemporary Rural China: Filial Piety Redefined from a Foucauldian Perspective 2. Existing Datasets to Study the Impact of Internal Migration on Caregiving Arrangements among Older Adults in China 3. Effects of Care Arrangement on the Age of Institutionalization among Community-dwelling Chinese Older Adults 4. Domestic Helpers as Frontline Workers in Home-Based Long-Term Care in China: Opportunities and Challenges 5. Process and Structure: Service Satisfaction and Recommendation in a Community-based Elderly Meal Service in Shanghai 6. Unmet Needs and Associated Factors among Community-living Older People with Disability in China: 2005-2014 7. Quality of Death among Older Adults in China: The Role of Medical Expenditure and Timely Medical Treatment 8. Does Welfare Receipt Change Consumption on Health among Older Families? The Case of China 9. China's Ambitious Policy Experiment with Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Promises, Challenges, and Prospects