Aging

91 books

The Disconnected Society cover
The Disconnected Society NHK特别节目录制组 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014 Written collectively by reporters from NHK's Special Programs unit and drawn from interviews conducted for the documentary of the same name, this book…
My Mind: The Boundary Between Artificial Intelligence and Real Intelligence cover
My Mind: The Boundary Between Artificial Intelligence and Real Intelligence Mohamed I. Elmasry Beijing Normal University Press · 2025 At a time when almost all attention is turned toward artificial intelligence, this book turns the lens around and asks a neglected question: what exac…
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity cover
Rating 3.8
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity Lynda Gratton / Andrew Scott CITIC Press · 2018 This book begins with a numerical fact that is already unfolding: about half of the people born in the early 21st century have a good chance of living…
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Rating 3.5
The Retirement-Free Society 日本《朝日新闻》采访组 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 "Retirement-free" is a term coined by the Asahi Shimbun reporting team: adding "free" before "retirement," which denotes leaving one's job due to old …
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Facing the End: Compromise and Accommodation in Hospital Palliative Care 陆杰华 / 戚政烨 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 Modern medicine aims to prolong and save lives, and we have grown accustomed to a narrative of fighting death; yet resuscitation measures and life-sup…
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Rating 3.5
Kitano Takeshi's Moments of Solitude Takeshi Kitano Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Kitano Takeshi's Moments of Solitude (original title "Sabishisa" no Kenkyū) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese director, actor, and wri…
Breaking the Age Code: How Positive Age Beliefs Can Make Us Happier, Healthier, and Longer-Lived cover
Rating 3.6
Breaking the Age Code: How Positive Age Beliefs Can Make Us Happier, Healthier, and Longer-Lived 贝卡·利维 China Machine Press · 2024 Breaking the Age Code is the representative work of Becca Levy, professor of public health and psychology at Yale University and a leading researcher …
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Rating 3.0
The Super-Aged Era: Understanding the Future of Population Bradley Schurman China Translation & Publishing House · 2022 When the number of people over 65 in a society exceeds the number of people under 18 for the first time, that society enters what this book calls the …
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Rating 4.1
Murder Most Extreme: The Anguish of a Mystery Writer Keigo Higashino Nanhai Publication Company · 2011 This is a short story collection by Keigo Higashino, containing eight independent stories in a consistent style of dark humor. The book does not rely …
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Rating 3.5
The Downstream Elderly Fujita Takanori CITIC Press · 2017 "Downstream elderly" is a term coined by the Japanese social welfare scholar Takanori Fujita to describe older people who cannot maintain an ordinary …
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Development and Sharing Zheng Zaohuan Zhejiang University Press · 2011 This is a collection of papers with a vivid sense of its time. Standing at the point when Zhejiang's per capita GDP surpassed US$6,000, it places "dev…
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Closing China's Pension Gap — This is a book centered on the financial sustainability of China's basic old-age insurance system, discussing the gap that has gradually widened betwe…
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Rating 3.6
The Age of Negative Real Estate 日本《朝日新闻》采访组 China Textile & Apparel Press · 2021 This book is the expanded print edition of the Asahi Shimbun's major serialized feature "The Era of Negative Real Estate," originally titled "The Era …
'Care in Old Age': Policy Foundations and Reform Practices of China's Long-Term Care Security cover
Rating 3.4
'Care in Old Age': Policy Foundations and Reform Practices of China's Long-Term Care Security 关博 China Planning Press · 2026 The book consists of eight chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the basic concepts and reviews the literature on long-term care security. Chapter 2 analyzes…
Collection of Huang Chunlin's Academic Thoughts and Clinical Experience: Clinical Practice and Inheritance in Geriatric Diseases cover
Rating 3.1
Collection of Huang Chunlin's Academic Thoughts and Clinical Experience: Clinical Practice and Inheritance in Geriatric Diseases 李新梅 / 林晓忠 · 2025 Population aging is one of the most severe challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Since China entered an aging society in 1999, its elderly …
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Rating 3.8
Geriatric Hygiene 何耀 / 倪进东 / Shi Xiaoming / 毛琛 · 2025 This book is divided into five parts and twenty-eight chapters. Part One introduces the concept and development of geriatric hygiene; Part Two explain…
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Rating 3.8
Facing Alzheimer's Disease 李中 / 张桂莲 / 刘云云 · 2025 With deepening population aging, China has become the country with the largest number of Alzheimer's disease patients in the world. Alzheimer's diseas…
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Rating 3.9
The Aging Tiger: Korea's Retirement Predicament 托马斯·R.克拉森 / 梁允祯 / 刘雪莲 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 A striking feature of many Korean workers is that they face contractual retirement at a young age (mostly 55), often involuntarily, and are then left …
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Rating 3.4
Smart Elderly Care and Elderly Well-Being 周建芳 / 胡雅萍 / 朱晓 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 As one of the key strategies for addressing the challenges of population aging, smart eldercare seeks to integrate technological innovation with socia…
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Rating 3.8
Wave: China's Exploration of an Aging Society 老龄社会30人论坛 / 盘古智库老龄社会研究院 Publishing House of Electronics Industry · 2024 Driven by economic and social progress and by longer lifespans, fewer children, and population migration, population aging is sweeping the globe. Chin…