Ageing Society
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Socio-cultural Impacts from Economic Crisis: A Collection of Articles from 1998 Annual Technical Conference | Collects articles on the socio-cultural impacts related to the economic crisis. Studies the impact of economic crisis that reflects the intellectual and cultural crises of Thai society. Examines the impact upon the teaching profession, and upon human development in the process of Tambon development planning. Considers the impact on social and cultural development, focusing on labor unemployment poverty disadvantaged people public health c ...Continue Reading | Thai | 58014 | |
| Social Problems 98/99 | Contains articles examining various theories on the existence and persistence of social problems. Focuses on the family, including the change it is experiencing and the implications that these changes have for the individual and society. Looks at the causes and impact of drugs, crime delinquency and violence on American society and what can be done to control. Examines problems associated with the access to and the quality of health care, agin ...Continue Reading | English | 57916 | |
| Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream | Henshall, Kenneth G | Attempts to give a balance account of Japanese society, discussing briefly the western perceptions of Japan. Studies 'male-female relationships' as an essential basis of the society, focusing on gender issues as male dominated society, historical downgrading of the female, and issues of homosexuality, bisexuality, and androgyny. Discusses the 'marginals' representing key elements of the diversity in Japanese society, regarding the minority grou ...Continue Reading | English | 57881 |
| Critical Mass Media | Atiya Achakulwisut | Explains the reasons why most mainstream media do not give much space to rural news. Deals with a plan to set up an alternative news agency called the Prachadhamma News Net in Chiang Mai in order to help solve problems of the poor led by a group of academics and activists. Questions whether an alternative media is necessary under the present situation | English | 57844 |
| Women and Health Services: An Agenda for Change | Examines women's health services in terms of the theoretical, conceptual and empirical arguments for greater gender awareness and equality in health planning. Explores a variety of plans to put these new ideas into practices. Offers advice on what can be done and the method of implementing change to the current health services structure | English | 57825 | |
| An Assessment of the Thai Government's Health Services for the Aged | Assesses services which the Thai Ministry of Public Health provides to old people based on data collected in hospitals and communities across Thailand in 1998. Focuses on old people's cards , a programme giving free health care at public facilities to all Thais aged 60 or older. Presents the percentage of elderly covered by the old people's card and other health insurance schemes in Thailand. Surveys public provision of health services to eld ...Continue Reading | English | 57812 | |
| The 1999 Thai National Symposium on Population Studies | Thai National Symposium on Population Studies (1999 : Chulalongkorn University) | Contains papers from the 1999 Thai National Symposium on Population Studies, dealing with participation rate of Thai women labor force, migration of unskilled women workers to foreign countries, migration of child labor, and international migrants in the context of national security. Focuses on the aged population in terms of their occupations, age-sex structure, and sexual health. Elaborates on the issues of hygienic and sexual behavior of fis ...Continue Reading | Thai | 57773 |
| The 1999 Thai National Symposium on Population Studies, 18-19 November 1999 | Presents abstracts of 20 research works presented at the 13th National Symposium on Population Studies held in November 1999, including trends and population change, reproductive health, women's status, the labor force and migration, population and environment, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, and adolescent and aging population | English | 57772 | |
| World Gone Grey | Karnjariya Sukrung | Reports on the situation of an ageing population and the problems of the elderly in the years to come. Considers the great effect of this demographic change which sets a challenge for Thailand's health and social care systems. Presents a list of services for the elderly provided by the Senior Citizen's Council and the Senior Citizen's Association of Thailand, including suggestions for a more elderly-friendly society, and facts and figures about ...Continue Reading | English | 57552 |
| Local Level Policy Development to Deal with the Consequences of Population Ageing in Bangladesh | Kabir, Mumayum | Gives information on aged people or senior citizens in Bangladesh and trends in crude death rate and expectation of life, covering ageing index and old age dependency ratio, and privileges of the senior citizens. Mentions the background and outlines the major themes of Bangladesh's country study sponsored by the ESCAP. Presents a description of the background characteristics of the sampled aged people, citing sex, age, marital status, family si ...Continue Reading | English | 57344 |
| Local Level Policy Development on Consequences of Ageing: Indonesia Case | Wirakartakusumah, M. Djuhari | Contains information on characteristics and behavioral patterns of the elderly people in Indonesia to project future activities that appropriate for them, focusing on their economic participation and potentials. Establishes a socio-economic profile of the local area, examining the potentiality of greater economic integration of the elderly to their immediate locality. Develops appropriate policies and programmes to harness the economic potentia ...Continue Reading | English | 57299 |
| Age and Reason | Chhang, Sara | Looks into the urgent need of Cambodia, to promote an age integrated society that encourages the talents and participation of older people while meeting their care needs. Contains the interviews of two older people of Cambodia who struggled to survive after the Cambodian Government's ban on beggars enforced on December 1, 1999 at Angkor Wat, covering their way of living and how to make money at Angkor Wat. | English | 57297 |
| Age Structure and Sex of Aged Population in Thailand | Defenes the terms aged population and oldest old , related to the analysis on age structure of these two groups in Thailand. Collects data from following sources : 1990 Population census, 1995-1996 Survey of Population Change, Civil Registration, and 1993 Survey of Aged Population in Thailand. Presents the result of the projection on aged population and oldest old in Thailand during 1998-2025, focusing on the increasing rate and sex balance ...Continue Reading | Thai | 57166 | |
| Family and the Elderly: Case Study of Bangkok and Phra Nakorn Sri-Ayuddhaya | Malinee Wongsith | Studies the socio-economic condition of the elderly with special emphasis on women. Examines their family structure and status, looking at their needs, ability and participation in community development as well as evaluating their potentials to form self-dependent group. Covers attitudes on the care for the elderly | Thai | 56557 |
| Relationships and Attitudes of Thai Children Towards Old and Young Adults | Sri-ruen Keawkungwal | Investigates the patterns of intergenerational relationships and attitudes of Thai children towards young and old adults from five different provinces in Thailand. Compares attitudes of children towards adults among children in different provinces. Looks at the influences of different cultural, socio-economic and religious practices of those provinces, which affect intergenerational relationships. Measures children's attitude towards young and ...Continue Reading | English | 55924 |
| Community Participation in Providing Care for Elderly in Rural Thailand | Siriwan Siriboon | Reports a self-help community-based support scheme developed by setting up Elderly Social Service Center (ESSC), as a pilot project in three rural communities in Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Suphan Buri to make the most use of resources within the community in care and services of the elderly. Describes the project activities as a social innovation and means for welfare targeted at the elderly and community leaders, comprising two phases of evaluat ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 55788 |
| Community Spirit | Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan | Deals with the Saeng Thien group, a day care centre for pre-school kids from low-income families in Wat Bang Sai Kai in Thon Buri. Describes the aim of its establishment to provide basic education, Dhamma teaching and safe shelter for the slum children. Focuses on its public donation, volunteer staff, and its limited budget, noting the Sang Thien Group's recent request for the parents to help pay five baht a day for their children's lunch and ...Continue Reading | English | 55093 |
| An Age of Neglect | Bussaeawan Teerawichitchainan | Gives background information about the Bethany Home, an age-care centre organized by a group of Catholic nuns for poor old women located in Ban Pong, and Wat Nong Hoi Age-Care Centre for underprivileged elderly located in the temple's compound in Muang Ratchaburi. Notes the number of staff providing service and care, and of residents with discussion of their daily activities and the condition that relatives visit them. Notes the problems of a l ...Continue Reading | English | 54836 |
| Poverty Profiles for Thailand | Analyzes the nature and extent of poverty in Thailand by measuring the economic welfare of each household. Reveals poverty at the aggregate level, presenting statistical tables on poverty incidence by regions and areas, poverty by socioeconomic and demographic of households, and poverty among children and the elderly. Considers the well-being of the poor in terms of education attainment, drinking water, toilet facilities, cooking fuel, availabi ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 54683 | |
| Whatever Happened to Family Values ? | Notes that rapid economic growth has wrought significant changes in Thai society especially in urban areas similar to the situation in other countries in SE Asia. Explains the causes of breakdown of family structure and community which have generated social problems with various examples. Includes a related article on Indonesian Kids who, without proper parental guidance, turn to crime and druges. | English | 54476 |
