Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs, with interesting case-studies 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 non-communicable 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.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface
INTRODUCTION: REGIONAL TRENDS AND ISSUES
Contents:
- Introduction: Regional Trends and Issues (Phua Kai Hong, Goh Lee Gan and Yap Mui Teng)
- Demography (Yvonne Arivalagan)
- Economic Development (Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin)
- Gender and Old-Age Economic Security (Cynthia Chen, Elaine Kempson, Donghyun Park and Joanne Yoong)
- Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases (Kavita Venkataraman and Fong Ngan Phoon)
- Active and Productive Ageing (Thelma Kay and Marie Nodzenski)
- Social–cultural Aspects: Family and Filial Support (Thang Leng Leng)
- Income Security (Christopher Gee and Joelle H Fong)
- Urban Environment (Fung John Chye, Heng Chye Kiang and Yeo Su-Jan)
- Health and Healthcare (Goh Lee Gan and Marie Nodzenski)
- Mental Health (Kua Ee Heok)
- Long-Term Care (Phua Kai Hong, Winston Chin, Jessica Loo and Puttiporn Soontornwipart)
- Palliative Care (Goh Lee Gan)
- Technology and Social Innovations (Paul Kowal, Loïc Garçon, Alex Ross and Paul Ong)
Readership: It will be of great interest to policy-makers and practitioners from both the public and private sectors, as well as scholars and students who are interested in ageing and development issues occurring in the leading ageing societies of Asia.
PHUA Kai Hong is currently teaching Health Economics at the Singapore Management University. He holds adjunct appointments at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, and is Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University. He was previously Associate Professor and Head, Health Services Research at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and was also Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University and received graduate degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health (Master in Health Services Administration & Population Sciences) and the London School of Economics & Political Science (PhD in Health Economics). He has produced numerous papers in the field of health policy and management, including the development of health services, population ageing, health economics and financing, comparative health and social policy reforms in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a founding member of the Asian Health Systems Reform Network (DRAGONET), and served as past Chairman of the Executive Board of the Asia-Pacific Health Economics Network (APHEN). He was appointed to many national advisory committees on health and social policy issues in Singapore and is a past Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Red Cross. He has undertaken healthcare consulting assignments for international organisations including the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific, World Bank, World Health Organization, and ministries of health in East Asia and the Middle East. He also served as Chairman, Technical Advisory Group on Health Sector Development in the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (2000–2005), and moderated several WHO regional meetings on health systems and a Ministerial Round table on Health and Poverty. He delivered the ST Lee Lecture at the Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney and the Australian National University in 2012, and was a member of the WHO Expert Committee on the Economics of Healthy Ageing (2017–2018).
GOH Lee Gan is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Family Medicine, National University Health System, and an Associate Professor in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His contributions are in Family Medicine, Public Health and Internal Medicine in teaching, practice, and research. He was a Past President of the Gerontological Society of Singapore, Past President of College of Family Physicians, Singapore; Past President of Singapore Medical Association; and Past President of Asia Pacific Region, World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca).
YAP Mui Teng is a Principal Research Fellow at the Governance and Economy Department at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She is also an Associate of the Changing Family in Asia Cluster at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. She has written and published widely on fertility and family planning, migration, and ageing in Singapore and the region and was formerly a statistician in two government agencies and a researcher in the East–West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Mui Teng has a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore, and holds Master and PhD degrees from the University of Hawai'i.
