Ageing and Long-term Care: National Policies in the Asia-Pacific

David R Phillips · Alfred C M Chan

Oct 2002 · Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

About this ebook

The case studies in this book focus on the emergence, extent and nature of national policies on ageing and associated strategies to address long-term care needs. Key opportunities for and constraints on policy are identified in this first round of regional studies, written by prominent researchers in Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, who are partners in the Ageing Research Network of the Asian Development Research Forum. The case-studies are set in the context of regional and international plans of action on ageing and the deliberations of the Second World Assembly on Ageing held in 2002.

About the author

David R Phillips holds the Chair of Professor of Social Policy, is Head of the Department of Politics and Sociology, and Associate Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Alfred C M Chan is Associate Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.