AGEING IN ASIA

 Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs with interesting casestudies offering innovative and useful lessons The book covers ageing and related developments occurring in the most dynamic industrializing and urbanizing societies of emerging Asia It includes topical issues such public policies and responses to current challenges from the growing needs of an ageing population due to rise of chronic noncommunicable diseases amidst rapidly changing social cultural economic and political changes in the region The main purpose of the book is to provide useful comparisons of social care systems undergoing rapid transitions and to offer some examples of best practices and lessons to respond to the changing needs due to population ageing