Ageing Society
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| ASEAN Strategic Framework on Social Welfare and Development (2011-2015) | Deals with the ASEAN strategic framework and plan of action for social welfare, family and children of 2011-2015. Focuses on four priorities such as children, older persons, persons with disabilities and family development. Presents the background of prioritizes children. Summarizes plan of actions for children, including capacity building in human resources and research analysis. Details the mechanism to promote and protect children from abus ...Continue Reading | English | 85844 | |
| ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change , Academic Forum on 26 September 2011 at Nonthaburi | Academic Forum ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change (2011 : Nonthaburi) | Compiles information on ASEAN, dealing with 10 ASEAN member countries, ASEAN+3 (China, South Korea, Japan), ASEAN+6 (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand). Mentions benefits from ASEAN liberalization, particularly the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. Highlights the social development and social welfare of Thai society towards ASEAN. Covers topics on children and youth, gender equality, disabled people, human traffi ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84453 |
| 40 Things You Need to Know About the Next 40 Years | Predicts the future of Thailand in the next 40 years. Comes up with 40 things that will almost certainly happen, noting Thai Buddhism, gender, funeral ceremony, Thainess, cross-cultural marriage, national ideology, merit-making, Thai music, architecture, Bangkok, aging, Thai language, national heritage, nanotechnology, biotechnology, television, birds, wildlife, Red full , durian, Khao Yai, future cars, railways, pattaya, beauty, Coastal erosion ...Continue Reading | English | 82569 | |
| Profiting the Underprivileged | Sirinya Wattanasukchai | Deals with social entrepreneurship. Compares profit-maximizing businesses with social enterprises, for which profit means environmental or social solutions instead of only money. Provides the pioneer example of Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank, which grants loans to the underprivileged. Explains that a social enterprise takes everything into account, from employee and consumer to environment and society it serves the marginalized but still earns ...Continue Reading | English | 80767 |
| Way of Thinking of Elderly and Image of Successful Aging | Phuanjai Rattakorn | Focuses on the ways of thinking of the elderly about their self-image as aging . Explains how to define and to judge successful aging based on interpretation and self-evaluation of the elderly. Studies the key conditions for supporting or impeding successful aging from the elderly's prespective. Presents result from Baan Piyamal Elder Center for the aged. Defines the selfness of the aging . Overviews way of life of aging people, sharing ex ...Continue Reading | English | 80221 |
| Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015 | Presents the Cha-am Hua Hin Declaration on the Roadmap for the ASEAN Community (2009-2015). Details ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) Blueprint, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint, and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprint. Presents each blueprint with introduction, characteristics and elements, implementation and review mechanism. Includes the initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan ...Continue Reading | English | 78856 | |
| The Heteroglosiac Representation of Women's Community: The Grandmothers' Tales | Kai-ling Liu | Investigates the community building of the project of The Grandmothers' Tales published by Taipei Association for the Promotion of Women's Rights. Focuses on stories of eighteen senior women, which are divided into nine groups: radical grannies, aboriginal grannies, grannies who shared their husbands with the second wife, grannies who were adopted daughter-in-law, laborious grannies, foot-binding grannies, Japanese grannies, authoritative gran ...Continue Reading | English | 78441 |
| Poverty Labor, and Welfare: Query for State and Community , Seminar on 26 November 2007 at Fac. of Economics, Thammasat University | Seminar on Poverty Labor, and Welfare: Query for State and Community (2007 : Thammasat University) | Provides the speeches from the seminar on Poverty, Labour, and Welfare: Query for State and Community . Discusses various topics related to informal labour, poor people in urban areas, labour welfare, and migrant workers. Presents information on the welfare for elderly, focusing on the effects to economy and the social preparation for elderly. Covers the discussions on fiscal measures for the poor and disadvantaged groups, and the social prot ...Continue Reading | Thai | 78434 |
| Proposals from People Politics to the Political Parties: 12 Social-Driven Politics for People's Well-being | Proposes social driven policies for the state, dealing with labour welfare system, welfare fund for the elderly, and health coverage services. Looks at the policies on public transport, vegetable and fruit consumption, land and forest management, sea resources, rubber production, sufficiency economy, fund for youth and social development, Tambon learning center, and fund for media development. | Thai | 78222 | |
| Summary of Significant Statistical Data and Salient Issues: Survey/Census Result 2008 | Summarizes significant statistical data and salient issues from survey/census results in 2008. Divides the statistical data and issues into three fields: economy and society with 6 projects, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with 7 projects, and public opinion with 5 projects. Deals with topics on household economic and social conditions, mass media, migration, ageing population, internet service, e-commerce, narcotics, and compute ...Continue Reading | Thai | 78162 | |
| Project on Effects of the Migration of Adult Children Upon the Well-being of the Old Age Parents , Final Report | Jiraporn Kespichayawattana | Studies the impacts of adult child's migration on the well-being of Thai elderly parents. Compares the effects of child's migration among three groups of parents which are 70-79 cohort, 60-64 cohort, and 50-54 cohort. Focuses on economic status material support household assistance visiting and contact health taking care of grandchild satisfaction of parents toward assistance, concern, and respect and desertion of parents. Includes sugg ...Continue Reading | Thai | 78141 |
| Psychology and Human Development: Beauty of the Elders, The 6th Technical Conference on 26 November 2006 at Chulalongkorn University | Technical Conference on Psychology and Human Development: Beauty of the Elders (6th : 2006 : Chulalongkorn University) | Presents comments and experiences of the experts on psychology of the elderly e.g. life styles, generation gap, stereotype. Contains summaries of research reports on psychology e.g. patient's attitudes toward drug therapy, youth's mental health, adolescent delinquency, practicum in counseling, numerosity estimation in children, moral judgement, premarital sex, special child, forgiveness, self-objectification in undergraduates, students' stress, ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77539 |
| Older People and Cyclone Nargis: A Study of the Situation of Older People 100 Days On, Full Report | Ko Lwin | Presents a research study about emergency management in Myanmar. Deals with the effect of Cyclone Nargis on older people in three target areas :Kyiak Lat, Dedeye and Pyapon. Provides the immediate and long-term needs of older people such as health care, food aid, home-based care, nutritional supplements, counselling, microfinance, and income-generating activities.Gives the information about older people in emergencies, dealing with social prote ...Continue Reading | English | 77517 |
| National Strategies to Cushion impact of the Increasing Proportion of Thai Ageing Population | Kua Wongboonsin | Deals with the changing demographic structure trend projection of Thailand in 2000-2025, related to the current demographic transition, demographic dividend, and proportion of the ageing population during that time. Provides recommendations to prolong the period of the demographic dividend. Identifies policy measures to enhance the productivity of workforce during and after the demographic-dividend period and policy measures for healthy ageing ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77402 |
| Journal of Social Science, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University | Compile 7 articles regarding social science research both in Thailand and other countries. Covers the topic of Thai state in the stream of globalization, the relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) under the American empire in terms of the energy policy, agricultural policy adjustment in the trade liberalization era through the shallot policy, the council of democracy in community, the public sphere in Thai television media, the inn ...Continue Reading | Thai | 77394 | |
| China 2020: Old age security | Gives an overview of China's pension system, considering how pension system reform involves the redirection of financial flows and affects the livelihood of people at the vulnerable stage. Looks at the challenges of the pension system, dealing with the evolution of the old-age pension system and key problems of the current system. Calls for the four unifications i.e. equal treatment of all types of enterprises and workers by a unified system, u ...Continue Reading | English | 77355 | |
| The Baby Boomers and the Baby Bust: What Lies Ahead? | Points out the combination of a declining birthrate and a growing cohort of senior citizens, and the impacts towards workforce and Japan's system of public pension. Discusses various topics regarding the marriage and family condition in the aspect of young Japanese people, covering reasons to stay single childbirth and child rearing living together without marriage and pregnancy before wedding excesses in pursuit of higher education sexless ...Continue Reading | English | 77287 | |
| Population Ageing and the Well-being of Older Persons in Thailand: Past Trends, Current Situation and Future Challenges | Knodel, John | Focuses on the rapid demographic changed that has taken place in Thailand during the last three to four decades which leading the country to become the most aged in Southeast Asia next only to Singapore. Explains the significant declines in fertility and improvements in longevity during the second half of the 20th century. Deals with dramatic decline in the ratio of the working age population to the population in the older ages. Outlines the ...Continue Reading | English | 77254 |
| Building the Sufficiency and Sustainable Happiness | Wimon Kitwanitkhachon | Reports the health promotion in Thai regions, dealing with sufficient happiness ways of the Southerners in relation to human threat, natural threat, health threat, and environmental threat. Looks at the happiness and suffering in the North, considering the situation of the elderly and the local well-being. Describes the Isan way of happiness and sustainable happiness based on sufficiency in the Central, Eastern, and Western regions. | Thai | 77238 |
| Macroeconomic Aspects of Demographic Change and Intergenerational Transfers in Thailand | Amonthep Chawla | Investigates the relationship between population age structure and how individuals support their consumption in Thailand. Measures Thailand's economic lifecycle, which is a concept of how population age structure influences savings and the economy. Presents the methodology that summarizes the estimation of the National Transfer Flow Account for Thailand. Shows that change in age structure influences saving rates in Thailand before 1985. Menti ...Continue Reading | English | 77222 |
