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The moral foundation and good practice of long-term care
Wong, Honchung
Wong, Honchung
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Global aging creates what may be the greatest public health problem of the twenty-first century. By 2040, there will be more people in the United States over age eighty than there are preschoolers. By 2050, half of continental Europe will be forty-nine or older, and well before that, by 2030, one of every two adults in development countries will have reached retirement age. While the proportion of the elderly in developed countries is due to double over the next fifty years, it is due to triple in East Asia. By 2050, there will be 332 million Chinese sixty-five years of age or over, equivalent to the world‘s elderly population in 1990. The 2 billion people over age sixty who will live in our aging world by 2050 will mostly be living in developing countries. The rapid growth of the world‘s elderly population increases the burdens for the management of chronic disease and long-term care, which presents an urgent challenge around the world. How to tackle these serious problems from Confucian perspective? In Confucianism, the sense of compassion cannot bear to see the sufferings of others is equal to the virtue of ren (beneficence), which is the highest among all virtues and is the foundation of all other virtues, and filial piety is a starting point of practicing ren, since this sense of compassion manifests most directly through our attitudes towards our parents
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2010-07
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