This paper aims to study the applicability of the shared care approach in the Chinese community in Britain. The discussion is based on findings of two studies on family care of older people in London conducted respectively in and . Both studies examined the needs of Chinese older people and whether and how their needs were met by informal care. The findings show that there is a strong belief among Chinese families that older people should live with their sons. While the Chinese families were highly motivated to take care of their older family members, and many of them felt obliged to live with their parents and wanted to give assistance to them, not all were, in practice, able to do so as much as they would have wished. Shortfall between what older people needed and the assistance they received was obvious, especially in relation to personal care. It is argued that traditional Chinese values still carry some influence in obliging the Chinese to look after their elderly family members. However, they are not sufficiently influential to guarantee sufficient care. A unique model of shared care is thus clearly and precisely called for by the findings of this study.
Analyses the features, strategies and characteristics of health‐care reforms in the People’s Republic of China. Since the fourteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held in 1992, an emphasis has been placed on reform strategies such as cost recovery, profit making, diversification of services, and development of alternative financing strategies in respect of health‐care services provided in the public sector. Argues that the reform strategies employed have created new problems before solving the old ones. Inflation of medical cost has been elevated very rapidly. The de‐linkage of state finance bureau and health service providers has also contributed to the transfer of tension from the state to the enterprises. There is no sign that quasi‐public health‐care insurance is able to resolve these problems. Finally, co‐operative medicine in the rural areas has been largely dismantled, though this direction is going against the will of the state. Argues that a new balance of responsibility has to be developed as a top social priority between the state, enterprises and service users in China in order to meet the health‐care needs of the people.
In a Chinese society, there are a number of important cultural beliefs which govern the relationship between age and employment. For example, there is a traditional cultural saying that older people are but a treasure of the family. Other similar cultural norms suggest that to be old is to enjoy the fruits of one's offspring, to be nurtured by one's sons, and to be cared for by one's daughters (and also daughters-in-law). The ideology of the family as an extended unit supported and legitimized the notion of retirement, although this is by no means a Chinese concept.However, all these cultural blessings have also served to set a fundamental barrier for Chinese older people in contemporary Hong Kong who would like to continue to work beyond their retirement age. Discriminatory beliefs and negative stereotypes about the images and productivity of older workers are prevalent amongst some employers, which serve to legitimize the exclusion of older people from the labour market. Social dissatisfaction and political tensions which should have arisen from the exclusion of older workers, however, are blurred by the selective maintenance of Chinese cultural norms.In this article, authors Chiu and Ngan attempt to analyze the social and cultural bases of discriminatory practices affecting the employment of older workers in Hong Kong. Cultural bases for the production and maintenance of stereotypes are explored with particular reference to Chinese values and norms. Opportunities and constraints in relation to individual and collective empowerment for older workers are examined, based on a Program
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