Eldercare Policies in Japan and Scandinavia: Aging Societies East and West

Product Description These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future research) about how differently policies in this important area can be carried out in different countries. Review "A fascinating read for anyone interested in how seemingly very different societies (Japan and Norway) organize their services for older people. From this a good deal can be learnt." - Gerdt Sundstrom, Professor Emeritus in Gerontology, Jönköping University, Sweden, and consultant with The Swedish Federation of Retired Persons About the Author Paul Midford was a Monbusho scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University during 1992-1994 and has worked at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) and the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA). Midford taught international and comparative politics at Japanese universities for more than seven years. His research focuses on East Asian regional international politics and security, Japanese foreign policy, and especially Japanese defense policy. Professor Campbell is interested in how policies change from agenda-setting through implementation, and in the relationship between politics and substantive public policy. He works mostly on Japan, often in comparative perspective, and these days mainly focuses on social policy, including health care and Japan's new public, and the mandatory long-term-care insurance system. Unni Edvardsen is a professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her areas of interest include political science, Japan, Norway, eldercare policies, nursing care policies, and aging society issues. Yayoi Saito is a professor at Osaka University, Japan. Her interests and research lie in the realms in public administration, public management, eldercare, eldercare policies, and social policy.