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Options for Aged Care in China

Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System

By: Elena Glinskaya,Zhanliang Feng

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Options for Aged Care in China

Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System

By: Elena Glinskaya,Zhanliang Feng

China is aging at an unprecedented rate. Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the decades-old family planning policy have led to a rapid increase in the elderly population. According to the United Nations World Population Prospects, the proportion of older people age 65 and over will increase by about one-fourth by 2030, and the elderly will account for about one quarter of the total population by 2050. Population aging will not only pose challenges for elder care but also have an impact on the economy and all aspects of society (World Bank, 2016a). The government is aware of the need to develop an efficient and sustainable approach to aged care. To this end, the General Office of the State Council issued the 12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Aged Care Services in China and the Development Plan for a System of Social Services for the Aged (2011-2015). It is now in the process of formulating the 13th Five-Year National Plan on Aging, which will further elaborate and finalize the reform roadmap for 2016 to 2020. The Plan is expected to be finalized and launched by June 2016. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) helped draft these plans and is now leading the development of policy measures for the provision of social services for the elderly. This volume has been prepared to support the translation of the broad ideas on aged care provision expressed in the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plans and other government plans into reality and to help the government tackle the challenges described above. It strives to identify a policy framework that fits the Chinese context and can be put in place gradually. Specifically, it aims to provide an up-to-date understanding of the evolving aged care landscape in China; review international experiences in long-term care provision, financing, and quality assurance and assess their relevance to China’s current situation; discuss implications of current developments and trends for the future of aged care in China; and propose policy options based on available evidence and best practices.

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World Bank Publications

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1464810761

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9781464810763

Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography

Nourished by the Word

By: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

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Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography

Nourished by the Word

By: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians –those who lived in Byzantium. It shows how a particular type of Byzantine frescoes and icons illustrated the views of Patristic thinkers on the connections between the heavenly and the earthly worlds. The author explores the occurrence, and geographical distribution, of this new type of iconography that manifested itself in representations concerned with the human body, and argues that these were a reaction to docetist ideas. The volume also investigates the diffusion of saints’ cults and demonstrates that this took place on a North-South axis as their veneration began in Byzantium and gradually reached the northern part of Europe, and eventually the entirety of Christendom.

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210

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Springer

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3319989863

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9783319989860

Women in Society

Russia

By: Elena Moiseevna Kotli︠a︡rskai︠a︡

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Women in Society

Russia

By: Elena Moiseevna Kotli︠a︡rskai︠a︡

Provides an historical overview of the experiences of women in Russian society, discussing their participation in various fields and profiling the lives of significant women.

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136

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Cavendish Square Publishing

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1854355619

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9781854355614

Options for Aged Care in China

Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System

By: Elena Glinskaya,Zhanliang Feng

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Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System

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I Love Russia

Reporting from a Lost Country

By: Elena Kostyuchenko

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I Love Russia

Reporting from a Lost Country

By: Elena Kostyuchenko

* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko’s unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it. The result is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a young woman who refuses to be silenced. In March 2022, as a correspondent for Russia’s last free press, Novaya Gazeta, Kostyuchenko crossed the border into Ukraine to cover the war. It was her mission to ensure that Russians witnessed the horrors Putin was committing in their name. She filed her pieces knowing that should she return home, she would likely be prosecuted and sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison. Yet, driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism, she continues to write. I Love Russia stitches together reportage from the past fifteen years with personal essays, assembling a kaleidoscopic narrative that Kostyuchenko understands may be the last work from her homeland that she’ll publish for a long time—perhaps ever. It exposes the inner workings of an entire nation as it descends into fascism and, inevitably, war. She writes because the threat of Putin’s Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine. We fail to understand it at our own peril.

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Penguin

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0593655486

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9780593655481

Goodbye Leningrad : ein Memoir

By: Elena Gorokhova

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Goodbye Leningrad : ein Memoir

By: Elena Gorokhova

Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad where she discovers that beauty and passion can be found in unexpected places in Soviet Russia.

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3423142731

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Russian Tattoo

By: Elena Gorokhova

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Russian Tattoo

By: Elena Gorokhova

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING âe~Incredibly powerful âe¦ by the time you reach the end, youâe(tm)ll have experienced the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life.âe(tm) Alan Alda âe~The possibility of leaving Russia was never as thrilling as the prospect of leaving my mother.âe(tm) When Elena Gorokhova arrives in America, the only link back to her Russian past is a suitcase filled with twenty kilograms of what used to be her life. Navigating a country she had been taught to fear, Elena begins to carve out a new life in an unfamiliar world. Before the birth of Elena's daughter, her mother comes to visit and stays for twenty-four years. Elena, must struggle with the challenge of raising an American daughter whilst living with her controlling mother, a mirror image of her Motherland. Russian Tattoo is the story of what it means to be an outsider, and what happens when the cultures of our past and present collide. Above all, it is an insightful portrait of mothers and daughters.

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Random House

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0099592053

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Mothers and Daughters

By: Elena Bonner

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Mothers and Daughters

By: Elena Bonner

Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, evokes both the privileges and the unmet needs of growing up in the inner circle of the Communist elite even as she provides an indelible vision of the horror of her family's near extinction during Stalin's purges of the 1930s. 24 pages of photos.

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Vintage

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0679743359

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Options for Aged Care in China

Options for Aged Care in China

Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography

Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography

Women in Society

Women in Society

Options for Aged Care in China

Options for Aged Care in China

I Love Russia

I Love Russia

Goodbye Leningrad : ein Memoir

Goodbye Leningrad : ein Memoir

Russian Tattoo

Russian Tattoo

Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and Daughters

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