Making the Transition from Family Support for the Elderly to Social Support for the Elderly

Bibliographic Data

ID6046821
AuthorsGe Lin (0000-0002-4586-2603, a Sociology Research Institute, Nanjing University, corresponding author), Shu Langen (a Sociology Research Institute, Nanjing University)
Year2001
Volume34
Issue1
Pages35-48
Publication date2001-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueChinese Sociology & Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-4625 • E-ISSN: 1558-1004
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/csa0009-4625340135
OpenAlexW2055602578
LanguageEN
Citations received7

China is in the midst of a major social transformation. "Providing support for the elderly" has become a growing public concern. Social transformations are bound to bring about changes in the old pattern of eldercare. Under these new historical conditions, the problem of how to build up a social eldercare-guarantees system that has Chinese characteristics and is in accordance with the socialist market economy is a matter of major significance

China · Chinese society · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Elderly people · Political science · Social change · Social support · Social transformation · Socialist market economy · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology

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