Ageing in Asia-Pacific: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

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Thomas R. Klassen is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University in Toronto Canada. He has published widely in income security and retirement in Asia and North America. He is co-editor among other books of the Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration (2017) and author of Retirement in Canada (2013).Masa Higo is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Kyushu University in Fukuoka Japan. His research focuses on retirement reforms from a global perspective. He is co-editor of Retirement in Japan and South Korea: The past the present and the future of mandatory retirement (Routledge 2015).Nopraenue S. Dhirathiti is Associate Professor and Acting Vice President for International Relations and Corporate Social Communication at Mahidol University Thailand. Her current research interests are lifelong learning policy for the elderly people co-production of public services and the elderly housing.Theresa W. Devasahayam is Associate Lecturer at Singapore University of Social Sciences where she teaches courses on gender ethnicity and diversity medical sociology and Southeast Asian Societies. She has conducted extensive research and published widely on womens health ageing transnational labour migration women and food security and womens political participation. She has a PhD in Anthropology with a concentration in feminist studies from Syracuse University New York US.