The Birth of Global Aging and Its Local Afterlives

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Coming of Age 1
4. Old Age in Young Nations 22
5. Growing Old in the Time of Chronic Disease 59
6. The Emergence of the International Gerontologist 86
7. New Frontiers: Aging Experts in Asia and Africa 110
8. The Birth of Global Aging and Its Local Afterlives 131
9. International NGOs and the Aged in the Developing World 169
10. Epilogue from Decolonization to Globalization 196
11. Abbreviations 219
12. Notes 221
13. Acknowledgments 297
14. Index 305