ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miso Soup, Edo Period, Rice Cake
31 Mar 2015
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Anth2230 life course & aging (ii), everyday life (i) Case study: akiko hashimoto (1996), gift of generations, typical pattern of elder care in postwar japan. Fieldwork conducted in the early 1980s: the main caregiver in-marrying bride/daughter-in-law, hashimoto states that the japanese elder care in postwar japan took a. Protective approach: assumed that everyone is expected to need care in the future, co-residence and family-based care as a way of managing care for the elderly. Living arrangements in west haven and odawara (1982) Population aging became a major social problem: demographic structure 22. 4% of 65 years old and older (2009) Japan as the most rapidly aging society in the world: low infant mortality rate, good medical care, high living standards & safety, declining birth rate & delayed marriages. Postindustrial patterns of death: low mortality rates, infectious diseases uncommon, people live longer, prolonged processes of dying, long-term diseases common (cancers, heart disease, and strokes)
