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Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why Family? A Confucian Account of Long-Term Care for the Elderly
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The essay concludes that the Confucian resources must be taken seriously in order to develop an authentic Chinese bioethics of long-term care and a defensible approach to long- term care policy for contemporary society in general and Chinese society in particular.Abstract:
Across the world, socio-economic forces are shifting the locus of long-term care from the family to institutional settings, producing significant moral, not just financial costs. This essay explores these costs and the distortions in the role of the family they involve. These reflections offer grounds for critically questioning the extent to which moral concerns regarding long-term care in Hong Kong and in mainland China are the same as those voiced in the United States, although family resemblances surely exist. Chinese moral values such as virtue and filial piety embedded in a Confucian moral and social context cannot be recast without distortion in terms of modern Western European notions. The essay concludes that the Confucian resources must be taken seriously in order to develop an authentic Chinese bioethics of long-term care and a defensible approach to long-term care policy for contemporary society in general and Chinese society in particular.read more
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Effects of enterostomal nurse telephone follow-up on postoperative adjustment of discharged colostomy patients.
Jun-e Zhang,Frances Kam Yuet Wong,Liming You,Mei-chun Zheng,Qiong Li,Bing-yan Zhang,Manrong Huang,Xinmei Ye,Ming-juan Liang,Jin-ling Liu +9 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that enterostomal nurse telephone follow-up can improve patient ostomy adjustment level and other related outcomes and is an effective intervention to support the adjustment of stoma patients after hospital discharge.
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Rural-urban disparities in unmet long-term care needs in China: The role of the hukou status.
Yumei Zhu,August Österle +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that rural hukou holders are significantly more likely to have unmet needs in all three populations regardless of their residency, and reducing unmet LTC needs and existing rural-urban disparities therefore requires not only more universal LTC coverage, but also a reduction of the specific access barriers arising from the hukOU system.
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Ageism and Social Integration of Older Adults in Their Neighborhoods in Israel
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which ageism is connected with the social integration of older adults in their neighborhoods and to identify factors that explain social integration was examined, and a convenience sample that included 300 older adults aged 65 and older and 300 younger people under the age of 65 who resided in 3 neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv with varied socioeconomic status were interviewed.
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The influence of eastern philosophy on elder care by Chinese Americans: attitudes toward long-term care.
Cary Stacy Smith,Li-Ching Hung +1 more
TL;DR: Will age-old axioms, primarily those concerning elderly Chinese and their relationship with their children, survive?
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Association between living arrangements and depressive symptoms among older women and men in South Korea
TL;DR: The prevalence of depressive symptoms are associated with the living arrangements of elderly Koreans and there are gender differences in these associations, that may stem from the different demands of social roles and relationships in the family.
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