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Explore significantbut often-overlookedaspects of aging policy!
This unique addition to the literature on aging policy will help
you understand devolutionthe decentralizing of service provisionand
the roles that state/local government and private organizations now
play in addressing the needs of our aging population. It will show
you how to initiate innovations and make positive changes in aging
policy through state and local initiatives, collaborations between
the federal government and other government agencies,
public/private collaboration, and strictly private initiatives.
From the editors: Around the world, the ground rules are being
questioned about the role of national governments in addressing
domestic needs. During the twentieth century in countries
throughout the world, central governments assumed major
responsibilities for a wide variety of human needs. Whether the
concern was income security, health, housing, or education,
interventions were premised upon convictions that a strong public
sector role was essential and that major involvement of national
governments was needed. More recently, a significant pattern
[devolution] has emerged in many countries wherein these
responsibilities have shifted away from national governments to
regional and local governments as well as from the public to the
private sector. Thoughtfully divided into five sections that
illustrate distinctly different forms of devolution, this book
first provides an essential overview of devolution and then
examines its implications for vital aspects of service provision to
the elderly. In the United States in recent years, the single
greatest focus for devolution has been the transformation of income
security protections for poor families. The federal Aid to Families
With Dependent Children program has been replaced by the Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families program. Devolution and Aging Policy
examines that change and other important facets of the current
climate of devolution, including: Medicaid-financed long-term care
state sponsorship of services in retirement communities the
implications of the Workforce Investment Act for the access of
older workers to training at a state level to upgrade their work
skills public/private sector collaboration in long-term care
insurance long-term care ombudsman programs what state governments
can do to help elders make use of information technology property
tax credits for seniors that are given in exchange for volunteering
on the municipal level how an HMO can encourage and stimulate
service coordination and more!
Explore significantbut often-overlookedaspects of aging policy!
This unique addition to the literature on aging policy will help
you understand devolutionthe decentralizing of service provisionand
the roles that state/local government and private organizations now
play in addressing the needs of our aging population. It will show
you how to initiate innovations and make positive changes in aging
policy through state and local initiatives, collaborations between
the federal government and other government agencies,
public/private collaboration, and strictly private initiatives.
From the editors: Around the world, the ground rules are being
questioned about the role of national governments in addressing
domestic needs. During the twentieth century in countries
throughout the world, central governments assumed major
responsibilities for a wide variety of human needs. Whether the
concern was income security, health, housing, or education,
interventions were premised upon convictions that a strong public
sector role was essential and that major involvement of national
governments was needed. More recently, a significant pattern
[devolution] has emerged in many countries wherein these
responsibilities have shifted away from national governments to
regional and local governments as well as from the public to the
private sector. Thoughtfully divided into five sections that
illustrate distinctly different forms of devolution, this book
first provides an essential overview of devolution and then
examines its implications for vital aspects of service provision to
the elderly. In the United States in recent years, the single
greatest focus for devolution has been the transformation of income
security protections for poor families. The federal Aid to Families
With Dependent Children program has been replaced by the Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families program. Devolution and Aging Policy
examines that change and other important facets of the current
climate of devolution, including: Medicaid-financed long-term care
state sponsorship of services in retirement communities the
implications of the Workforce Investment Act for the access of
older workers to training at a state level to upgrade their work
skills public/private sector collaboration in long-term care
insurance long-term care ombudsman programs what state governments
can do to help elders make use of information technology property
tax credits for seniors that are given in exchange for volunteering
on the municipal level how an HMO can encourage and stimulate
service coordination and more!
By the end of the current decade, many baby boomers will be senior
citizens. What policies should we enact to prepare for an aging
society?In the coming decade, we have a unique opportunity to
create new and better aging policies. This collection of twenty
essays by prominent educators, researchers, and policy analysts in
the field of gerontology brings together innovative ideas from the
United States, Europe, and Japan. Instead of focusing on utopian
dreams, these exciting proposals are based on policy changes that
may well be attainable in the next ten years. The vital concerns
addressed in Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins
include work and retirement issues, the aging prison population,
long-term care, Latino elders, transportation, death and dying
issues, and the aging of the baby boom generation. Advancing Aging
Policy as the 21st Century Begins explores: innovative policies and
care arrangements around the world the importance of a strong
economy that provides opportunities for seniors who seek them and
support for those who need it the need for flexible retirement and
employment policies for older adults the connections between family
policy and aging policy the importance of improving training and
compensation for workers in long-term care the special needs of our
diverse and rapidly growing population of older people the
importance of focusing aging policy on people rather than on
programsThis forward-looking book on policy and aging in the coming
decade puts the experience and insight of leaders in the field from
around the world in your hands. Policymakers, educators, and
students of gerontology will find it an invaluable resource.
Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and
Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females.
Today, Japan has the highest life expectancy and is the world's
most rapidly aging society. Public Policy and the Old Age
Revolution in Japan captures the vitality of Japanese policymakers
and the challenges they face in shaping a modern society responding
to its changing needs. The rapid transition to an aging society
poses a set of complex policy and resource dilemmas; the responses
taken in Japan are of great value to policymakers, professionals,
and students in the fields of gerontology, Asian and Japanese
studies, sociology, public policy, administration and management,
and anthropology in other industrial aging societies. Readers of
Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan will discover the
array of social and economic implications that comes with an
increasingly aged society. Such a change in demographics affects
pension expenditures and pension contributions, capital formation
and savings rates, health costs, service systems, tax bases, labor
pools, career counseling, training, advertising, and marketing.
This book does not stop with these topics, however. Readers also
learn about: how older Japanese workers are staying employed and
employable policies in Japan for a smooth transition from work to
retirement Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers the new direction
of health services in Japan the Japanese financing system for
elderly health care the expansion of formalized in-home services
for Japan's aged Japanese housing policy and the concept of
universal design the Gold Plan, a comprehensive ten-year plan to
promote health care and welfare for the aged the concept of
ikigai--promoting feelings of purpose and self-worth in the
agedPublic Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan is one of
only a handful of books prepared in English by American and
Japanese authors for an international audience about aging and
social policy in Japan. The book's recent collection of articles by
leading scholars on the subject makes it a unique and timely source
of information. Above all, Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution
in Japan makes it clear that the rest of the world has many
valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's approach to its
rapidly aging society.
Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the
changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in
different societies around the world. International Perspectives on
State and Family Support for the Elderly presents a fresh range of
lucid analyses of family caregiving policy from Canada, the United
States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Austria, Denmark,
Israel, and the People's Republic of China. Different institutional
structures, levels of economic development, and cultural values,
among other factors, impact policy development in various
countries. With the information examined in this book, readers can
gain an understanding of elder care in other societies, which can
help them in developing policies for their own countries.Authors of
International Perspectives on State and Family Support for the
Elderly address questions such as: Who is responsible for caring
for the aged? What are the policy issues that determine how such
care is handled in various countries? Are the underlying principles
upon which policy is based changing? Who pays for the care of the
aged? What is the balance of the roles of government, family, and
community? Along with these questions, authors discuss: the
importance of family care the well-being, payment, and rights of
informal caregivers providing services for informal caregivers
shifting the burden of care from formal organizations to families
the effects of governmental frameworks on caregiving the impact of
the political agenda on caregiving caregiving and the welfare
stateInternational Perspectives on State and Family Support for the
Elderly contains information for all professionals interested or
involved in developing policy for the elderly. Demographers,
sociologists, social workers, health care and public health
professionals, gerontologists, and advanced students in these
fields will find this book a helpful guide in their studies.
Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and
Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females.
Today, Japan has the highest life expectancy and is the world's
most rapidly aging society. Public Policy and the Old Age
Revolution in Japan captures the vitality of Japanese policymakers
and the challenges they face in shaping a modern society responding
to its changing needs. The rapid transition to an aging society
poses a set of complex policy and resource dilemmas; the responses
taken in Japan are of great value to policymakers, professionals,
and students in the fields of gerontology, Asian and Japanese
studies, sociology, public policy, administration and management,
and anthropology in other industrial aging societies. Readers of
Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan will discover the
array of social and economic implications that comes with an
increasingly aged society. Such a change in demographics affects
pension expenditures and pension contributions, capital formation
and savings rates, health costs, service systems, tax bases, labor
pools, career counseling, training, advertising, and marketing.
This book does not stop with these topics, however. Readers also
learn about: how older Japanese workers are staying employed and
employable policies in Japan for a smooth transition from work to
retirement Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers the new direction
of health services in Japan the Japanese financing system for
elderly health care the expansion of formalized in-home services
for Japan's aged Japanese housing policy and the concept of
universal design the Gold Plan, a comprehensive ten-year plan to
promote health care and welfare for the aged the concept of
ikigai--promoting feelings of purpose and self-worth in the
agedPublic Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan is one of
only a handful of books prepared in English by American and
Japanese authors for an international audience about aging and
social policy in Japan. The book's recent collection of articles by
leading scholars on the subject makes it a unique and timely source
of information. Above all, Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution
in Japan makes it clear that the rest of the world has many
valuable lessons to learn by studying Japan's approach to its
rapidly aging society.
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