This book offers a comprehensive exploration of innovative mutual aid elderly care models in rural China, encompassing community-driven, government-supported, and market-participated approaches. Drawing on rich case studies, it analyzes strategies that address the pressing challenges of an aging rural population, with a distinctive Chinese perspective on care provision. This book highlights pathways for effective resource integration, active community engagement, and long-term sustainability. Aimed at policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, it delivers actionable insights and novel solutions to the global challenge of population aging. By deepening understanding of China's rural elderly care systems, this book provides valuable lessons with broad relevance for aging societies worldwide.

Analyzes rural mutual aid elderly care in China, covering history, practice, and policy Offers multi-case analysis of rural mutual aid elderly care across China Connects China's solutions to global aging challenges, offering an innovative view on mutual aid elderly care

Autorentext

Dr. Yaguang Hao is a Professor at Institute for China Rural Studies and Institute for Advanced Study in Political Science of Central China Normal University. His main research interests are public policy, village self-governance, water governance and grassroots politics. He is a member of editorial board of the book series of "Rural China Studies" published by Social Sciences Academic Press China, and also a member of editorial board of the Chinese academic journal China Rural Research. Dr. Tingting Wan is a lecturer at Institute for China Rural Studies and Institute for Advanced Study in Political Science of Central China Normal University and has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University. She specializes in political sociology, with a focus on rural society and development.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Government-Led Model: Administration-Driven Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care in China.- Chapter 3. The Organizational Guidance Model: Civil Society Support for Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care in China.- Chapter 4. Spontaneous Mass Movements: The Self-Governance Perspective on Mutual Aid in Rural Elder Care in China.- Chapter 5. The Market Participation Model: Practice Innovations in China's Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care System.