Older Persons in Southeast Asia

Aris Ananta is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. His current works cover labour mobility in Southeast Asia and human development in Indonesia. He is also Professor in the University of Indonesia

PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Older Persons in Southeast Asia: from Liabilities to Asset by Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin; 2. Future Ageing in Southeast Asia: Demographic Trends, Human Capital, and Health Status by Wolfgang Lutz, Samir K. C., Hafiz T. A. Khan, Sergei Scherbov, and George W. Leeson; PART II. OLD AGE INCOME SECURITY; 3. Economic and Old Age: The Singapore Experience by David Reisman; 4. National Long Term Care Severe Disability Insurance in Singapore by Gerald Choon-Huat Koh; 5. Social Security and Health Care Financing for Older Persons: The Challenges of Ageing Society in Thailand by Kusol Soonthorndhada; 6. An Exploration for a Universal Non-Contributory Pension Scheme in Vietnam by Giang Thanh Long and Wade Donald Pfau; PART III. EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER SOURCES OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION; 7. Employment of Older Persons: Diversity Across Nations and Sub-Nations in Southeast Asia by Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Aris Ananta; 8. Work, Income, and Expenditure Patterns of the Filipino Elderly and Near-Elderly Women of Metro Cebu by Socorro A. Gultiano and Sonny S. Agustin; 9. Employability Approach to Financing Old Age by Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew; 10. Facing the Geriatric Wave in Indonesia: Financial Conditions and Social Supports by Tri Budi W. Rahardjo, Tony Hartono, Vita Priantina Dewi, Eef Hogervorst and Evi Nurvidya Arifin; PART IV. AGEING, MIGRATION, AND DEVELOPMENT; 11. The Nexus of Ageing and Migration in Singapore by Kalyani K. Mehta; 12. Overseas Labour Migration and Well-being of Older Filipinos by Grace T. Cruz and Elma P. Laguna; 13. Urbanisation on the Ageing Community in Sarawak, Malaysia by Ling How Kee; PART V. ROLES OF GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY; 14. Ageing, Finance and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Notes for an Agenda by Philip Kreager; 15. Evaluation and Implementation of Ageing Related Policies in Indonesia by Nugroho Abikusno.