外文翻译--亚洲正在老龄化——时刻关注老年人的赡养和照顾(编辑修改稿)

外文翻译--亚洲正在老龄化——时刻关注老年人的赡养和照顾(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

way requires time‖. Commentators have also noted that whereas the more advanced countries were developed before they aged, countries in Asia are aging before they develop. Thus, questions have been raised as to whether they will be able to provide for the growing elderly population. On the other hand, Asia has also been characterized as a region where culture and tradition promote veneration and strong support for the old by family and munity. However, the influence of these cultural props is also being eroded by internal and external forces, such as globalization. Issues and Challenges It would be fair to say that few of the Asian countries have, to date, developed the necessary infrastructure and institutions to provide for their elderly. In fact, not all countries even have a clear policy on aging. Where formal systems exist, the coverage may be limited to selected groups such as civil servants, workers of state enterprises, and members of armed forces. As Jackson has noted, most countries in Asia continue to rely heavily on informal family works to support the elderly. Indeed, the family is considered the ―expected‖ and most appropriate provider of care. However, many questions have been raised about the sustainability of this model of care and various articles in this volume. In China, for example, the deliberate government policy limiting couples to one child, particularly in the urban areas, is causing its leaders to worry that in the future many children will eventually have to support two aged parents and four grandparents, or what is monly known as the ―1–2–4 problem‖ .Elsewhere, including in traditional Confucianist societies such as Korea and Taiwan, more elderly are living on their own. According to Mason, ―in Korea, only 8% of women surveyed in 1997 said they wanted to live with their children in old age, while 70% did not want to. In Taipei, China, the proportion of 60yearolds living with their adult children has declined substantially and the elderly are much slower than they used to be in moving in with their children as they age.‖ Surveys in Korea and Japan show an increasing proportion of middleaged who did not expect or even want to live with their children. Elderly who are single, who form a growing proportion of the population, may not have any children on whom to depend. Globalization is likely to have an impact on the family in a number of ways. The new global division of labor and ease of mobility increases the likelihood of younger generations migrating elsewhere in search of better job opportunities. Job losses and uncertainty associated with shorter, sharper business cycles are likely to affect fertility decisions as well as the willingness an。