TAILIEUCHUNG - Caring for the Elderly and Holding Down a Job: How Are Women Coping in Japan?

This hesitancy on the part of patients to seek the information needed may have resulted from feeling helpless due to hospitalization. How can seniors feel more proactive about their health care and less like victims? The Internet may not be able to help the elderly when they are already hospitalized, but it could be a useful resource to help them before they enter the hospital. The library could provide a significant “safe place” to find information about their health—a place where they could access traditional reference sources (books, articles, and reference librarians) in addition to the Internet where they would. | POPULATION AND HEALTH STUDIES April 2003 Number 65 A s I A - p A c I F I c population polky Caring for the Elderly and Holding Down a Job How Are Women Coping in Japan Asia-Pacific Population Policy summarizes research on population and reproductive health for policymakers and others concerned with the Asia-Pacific region. This publication was made possible through support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the East-West Center or of its supporters. Writers Naohiro Ogawa Robert D. Retherford Yasuhiko Saito Series Editor Sidney B. Westley Editorial Committee Tim Brown Minja Kim Choe Philip Estermann Robert D. Retherford ISSN 0891-6683 Correspondence address East-West Center Research Program Population and Health Studies 1601 East-West Road Honolulu HI 96848-1601 USA Telephone 808 944-7482 Fax 808 944-7490 E-mail poppubs@ Internet site iddle-aged women are the focus of increasing policy attention in Japan both as participants in the labor force and as caregivers for the elderly. After decades of low fertility economic planners are concerned about the country s shrinking work force. Japanese women who stay on the job as they marry and raise families play an important role in helping to compensate for declining numbers of male workers. Decades of low fertility combined with rising life expectancies have also resulted in rapid population aging growth of the oldest age groups as a proportion of Japan s total population. As in other Asian countries many elderly people live with their adult children and primary responsibility for their care tends to fall on middle-aged daughters and daughters-in-law. As of the mid-1990s 23 percent of married women in their forties and fifties lived with their own or their husband s parents according to the National Opinion Survey on Female Labor Rearing of Infants and Care of the Elderly. Policymakers are worried that women .

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