A01=Christie W. Kiefer
A01=Yasuhito Kinoshita
age of decline
aging japanese
anthropology
asia scholars
Author_Christie W. Kiefer
Author_Yasuhito Kinoshita
Category=JBSP4
Category=JKSG
cultural anthropologists
eastern culture
elder care
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ethnographers
family structures
fuji no sato
gerontology
japan
japanese
japanese culture
japanese families
japanese society
modern history
old folks homes
old people
planned retirement
retirement
retirement communities
social change
social community
social organization
sociological
sociology
traditional family
Product details
- ISBN 9780520075955
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan--the planned retirement community. In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture. Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions. Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for long-established relationships creates the need for the invention of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society. This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the "graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's values and the need for clear communication have important applications in other cultures as well.
Yasuhito Kinoshita is Director of the Gerontology Center at the Japan Senior Citizens Welfare Organization in Tokyo. Christie W. Kiefer is Professor of Anthropology in the Human Development and Aging Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
