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Ageing in Southeast and East Asia
Examines national ageing policies and programs, the sustainability of existing pension systems, housing and living arrangements, inter-generational transfer, and aspects of quality of life of the elderly population.
Care Relations in Southeast Asia
Care Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond, offers a better understanding of changes and continutity in intergenerational care relations and transactions within and beyond the family network across Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam with policy recommendations for the current and future challenges.
Warga Emas: Cabaran dan Keperluan Sokongan Sosial (Penerbit USM)
Tanpa mereka, siapalah kita. Tanpa mereka, kita tidak akan wujud. Mereka yang dimaksudkan ialah warga emas; insan yang telah banyak berjasa kepada pengukuhan institusi keluarga, kemajuan masyarakat dan pembangunan negara. Jasa dan pengorbanan mereka semakin dilupakan dan tidak dihargai. Malah mereka juga berhadapan dengan pelbagai cabaran dalam aspek keupayaan fizikal, masalah kesihatan dan penjagaan. Dalam hal ini, siapakah yang harus dipertanggungjawabkan? Buku ini merungkai tanggungjawab yang perlu dipikul oleh institusi keluarga dan pelbagai pihak dalam menjamin sokongan sosial agar kebajikan warga emas tidak terabai. Perubahan yang berlaku dalam persekitaran hidup warga emas perlu dihayati dan setiap individu harus memikul tanggungjawab untuk menjamin kebajikan dan kesejahteraan golongan ini. Buku ini juga amat sesuai dibaca oleh semua peringkat usia dalam memahami cabaran yang dihadapi oleh warga emas.
Ageing in East Asia
This book explores the causes and trends of population ageing in East Asia and discusses the challenges and impacts of population ageing on public policies.
International Perspectives on Older Adult Education
This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong learning which focus on learning and education in later life. This work breaks new ground in international understandings of what constitutes later life learning across diverse cultures in manifold countries or regions across the world. Containing 42 separate country/regional analyses of later life learning, the overall significance resides in insiders’ conceptualisations and critique of this emerging sub-field of lifelong learning and adult education. International perspectives on older adult education provides new appreciation of what is happening in countries from Europe (14), Africa (10), the Americas (7), Asia (9) and Austr...
The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing
This comparative resource charts the interface between the University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural contexts. After first providing introductory chapters to introduce the U3A movement and active ageing in global perspective and tracing the origins of U3As in France, the book sets off charting the international development of U3As in both European and Asian-Pacific contexts. Deliberately, the book moves away from the dominant Anglo-centric US- and UK-rooted analyses of U3As to account for contexts of different political ideology, sociocultural v...
User Science and Engineering
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2018, held in Puchong, Malaysia, in August 2018. The 32 papers accepted for i-USEr 2018 were selected from 72 submissions with a thorough double-blind review process. The selected papers illustrate how HCI is inclusive and omnipresent within the domains of informatics, Internet of Things, Quality of Life, and others. They are organized in the following topical sections: design, UX and usability; HCI and underserved; technology and adoption; human centered computing; HCI and IT infrastructure; and HCI and analytics.
Healthy Ageing in Asia
Asia is the world’s most populous region and has the highest per capita number of older people in the world. It is also home to the healthy ageing traditions of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine and the rich regional traditions of Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. This book addresses policies related to ageing, traditional Asian approaches to ageing, an integrated medical system approaches to ageing, ageing in place, and community empowerment. Features Presents information on The 100-Year Life. As a counterpoint to focussing on the frail elderly, Japan is promoting the ‘100-Year Life Society’, a societal model in which all citizens are dynamically engaged and productive through...
