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03230aam a2200469 i 4500 001 B027F6BC239311E9A16D344A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190129010118 008 171031t20182018mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017046944 020 $a 0674504631 020 $a 9780674504639 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d HLS $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a az----- $a f------ $a az----- 050 00 $a HN980 $b .S567 2018 082 00 $a 305.2609172/4 $2 23 100 1 $a Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita, $e author. 245 10 $a As the world ages : $b rethinking a demographic crisis / $c Kavita Sivaramakrishnan. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 320 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a People are living longer, not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations. Western experts have long conceived of aging as a universal predicament--one that supposedly provokes the same welfare concerns in every context. In the twenty-first century, we must embrace a new approach that prioritizes local agendas and values. In this history of how gerontologists, doctors, social scientists, and activists came to define the issue of global aging, Sivaramakrishnan shows that the United Nations, private NGOs, and transnational philanthropic foundations embraced programs that reflected prevailing Western ideas about modernization. The dominant paradigm often assumed that, because large-scale growth of an aging population happened first in the West, developing societies will experience the issues of aging in the same ways and on the same terms as their Western counterparts. Focusing on South Asia and Africa, As the World Ages shows how regional voices have begun to question this one-size-fits-all model and have argued instead for an approach that responds to local needs and concerns.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Coming of age -- Old age in young nations -- Growing old in the time of chronic disease -- The emergence of the international gerontologist -- New frontiers: aging experts in Asia and Africa -- The birth of global aging and its local afterlives -- International NGOs and the aged in the developing world -- Epilogue: From decolonization to globalization. 650 0 $a Social gerontology $z Developing countries. 650 0 $a Social gerontology $z Africa. 650 0 $a Social gerontology $z South Asia. 650 0 $a Aging $z Developing countries. 650 0 $a Social planning $z Developing countries. 651 0 $a Africa $x Social policy. 651 0 $a South Asia $x Social policy. 650 7 $a Aging. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00800293 650 7 $a Social gerontology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01744445 650 7 $a Social planning. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122726 650 7 $a Social policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122738 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 651 7 $a Developing countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242969 651 7 $a South Asia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244520 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190129010530.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B027F6BC239311E9A16D344A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search