Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 16
List of abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Assuring care: government policies and programs......Page 36
Cultural meanings of ~security~ in aging policies......Page 38
The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for aging......Page 47
From the New Deal to the new millennium: bridging the gap in US aging and health policy......Page 71
Changing meanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state......Page 101
Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond the millennium......Page 117
Providing care: professional caregivers......Page 138
We live too short, and die too long: on Japanese and US physicians' caregiving practices and approaches to withholding life-sustaining treatments......Page 140
Difficult choices: policy and meaning in Japanese hospice practice......Page 165
Policies and practices near the end of life in the US: the ambivalent pursuit of a good death......Page 191
Assisting in care: non-profit organizations and volunteers......Page 208
The development of social welfare services in Japan......Page 210
The accountability dilemma: providing voluntary care for the elderly in the US and Japan......Page 225
Coordinating and caring: family caregivers......Page 248
Variations in family caregiving in Japan and the US......Page 250
Recognizing the need for gender-responsive family caregiving policy: lessons from male caregivers......Page 267
Facilitating care of self......Page 292
The creativity of the demented elderly: the use of psychological approaches in a Japanese outpatient clinic......Page 294
Visible lives: life stories and ritual in American nursing homes......Page 308
Disclosure, decisions, and dementia in Japan: maximizing the continuity of self......Page 322
Concepts of personhood in Alzheimer's disease: considering Japanese notions of a relational self......Page 337
Epilogue: downsizing the material self: late life and long involvements with things......Page 353
Glossary......Page 363
Index......Page 368