Population ageing in East and Southeast Asia is proceeding faster than anywhere else in the world to date. By early next century many of the countries in this region will have relatively high proportions of people aged over 60 and this will have important implications for services and care. This book looks at ways in which territories and countries in the area are coping with ageing and changing service needs. This book is designed to be of interest to research gerontologists.

Product Description: "It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti."Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself—all without a clear plan of action...read more

Product Description: This book traces the development of Haiti's combined Vodou-Christian religion from 1500 to the present and explains how this combination of distinct faiths coalesces in a coherent belief system.• Provides a history of Haiti's unique religious tradition that explains how Spanish and French colonizers established Catholicism in Haiti and identifies how the connections between Vodou and African indigenous religions formed over the past five centuries• Proposes seven "principles of accommodation" that enable Vodou-Catholicism to be regarded as a cohesive, rational system by the vast majority of Haitians• Presents information culled from hundreds of references from the professional literature as well as interviews with two university professors who are both authorities on Haitian Vodou-Christianity and practitioners of the fait...read more

Product Description: Population ageing in East and Southeast Asia is proceeding faster than anywhere else in the world to date. By early next century many of the countries in this region will have relatively high proportions of people aged over 60 and this will have important implications for services and care...read more