Narrating the Future: Population Aging and the Demographic Imaginary in Thailand

Aulino, Felicity

doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1287181

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“…In the 21st century, extensions in the human life course (Aulino 2017), transformations in Western biomedicine (Stonington 2020), and the emergence of new care configurations (Feldman 2017; Lamb 2009) have inspired a vibrant corpus of literature in cultural and medical anthropology on aging and dying. The rapidly shifting spaces and situations in which people are aging and dying have inspired some scholars to pay sharper attention to death preparations: the bodily, religious, and familial rituals, as well as the pragmatic and medical decisions that are made by the soon‐to‐be dead (Al‐Mohammed 2019; Desjarlais 2016).…”

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Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda

Sadruddin

2022

Med Anthropol Q

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Meanings and processes of death in Rwanda have changed dramatically in the 25 years following imvururu, the Kinyarwandan term for “interruptions” that signifies the numerous episodes of violence between the late 1950s and mid‐1990s. Reflecting on experiences of elderly Rwandans who witnessed imvururu in adulthood, this article traces how death is perceived and practiced in old age, a phase of the life course that is marked with relative political calm. Although traces of imvururu permeate the present, these ordinary times—ibihe bisanzwe—afford opportunities for the elderly to alter their notions of death as an event by making it a personal process, reviving valued preparation practices from the past and creating new ones with the young. This peopled account invites alternative ways of thinking about time and recognizing death's role in infusing meaning back into life in contexts where accounts of the everyday remain frozen in an apocalyptic imaginary. [aging, death, ordinary, temporality, Rwanda].

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Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda

Sadruddin

2022

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“…Here, population aging is understood to be more prescriptive than descriptive. A politically contested arena, the official narrative of the population in China comes with national policies that directly impact ordinary people's lives and figure into popular perceptions of the future (see also Aulino 2017). Demography, therefore, needs to be understood as a strong state presence channeled in the naturalized language of demography when the state shifts away from its previous concern with overpopulation to population aging.…”

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Education of values: Marketizing the aging population in urban China

Wang

2021

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In this article, I examine some of the marketing and sales strategies at Gardenview, a newly established eldercare company that ran a few residential eldercare facilities in Nanjing, China. There, like elsewhere in urban China, the projected aging demography was mobilized to push for an industrialization (chanyehua)—marketization and professionalization—of eldercare, transforming ideas and experience of eldercare by putting forward a new set of knowledge of aging. To this end, I first ground the rising eldercare industry in the transitioning paradigm of conceptualizing China’s population from population control to demographic aging. Then I explore ethnographically how Gardenview participated in the eldercare industry in a rapidly aging China. In particular, I look at the floorplans and the marketing stories as devices of the education of values—as prices, the good and desirable, and differentiators—to understand the social, economic, and ethical dynamics instigated by a transitioning demography. These values, as I show, are crucial in linking everyday life and choices with the paradigmatic shift of China’s population. Finally, I discuss how understanding the very processes of marketing and sales as an education of values could shed further light on what anthropologist Michael Fischer calls “literacies of the future” as a socially and economically elaborated and contested world of an aging China.

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National trend in heart failure hospitalization and outcome under public health insurance system in Thailand 2008–2013

Janwanishstaporn

Karaketklang

Krittayaphong

2022

BMC Cardiovasc Disord

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Background There are limited data on the burden, characteristics, and outcomes of hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients in Thailand. The aim of this study was to investigate national trend in HF hospitalization rate, in-hospital and 1-year mortality rate, and rehospitalization rate in Thailand. Methods We analyzed the claims data of hospitalized patients obtained from the three major Thailand public health reimbursement systems between 2008 and 2013. Patients aged ≥ 18 years with a principal diagnosis of HF by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Thai modification were included. Comorbidities were identified by secondary diagnosis codes. The annual rate of HF hospitalization was calculated per 100,000 beneficiaries. Records of subsequent hospitalization of discharged patients were retrieved. For 1-year mortality rate, vital status of each patient was obtained from Thai Civil Registration of Death database. All outcomes were tested for linear trends across calendar years. Results Between 2008 and 2013, 434,933 HF hospitalizations were identified. The mean age was 65.3 years (SD 14.6), and 58.1% were female. The HF hospitalization rate increased from 138 in 2008 to 168 per 100,000 beneficiaries in 2013 (P for trend < 0.001). Nearly half (47.4%) had had a prior HF admission within 1 year. A small proportion of patients (7.4%) received echocardiography during hospitalization. The median length of hospital stay was 3 days. In-hospital mortality declined from 4.4 to 3.8% (P for trend < 0.001). The overall 30-day and 1-year rehospitalization rates were 34 and 73%, respectively, without significant trends over the study period. Most common cause of 30-day rehospitalization was HF (42%). One-year mortality decreased from 31.8% in 2008 to 28.5% in 2012 (P for trend < 0.001). Conclusion Between 2008 and 2013, HF hospitalization rate in Thailand increased. The in-hospital and 1-year mortality rates decreased slightly. However, the rehospitalization rate remained high mainly due to recurrent HF hospitalization.

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Narrating the Future: Population Aging and the Demographic Imaginary in Thailand

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda

Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda

Education of values: Marketizing the aging population in urban China

National trend in heart failure hospitalization and outcome under public health insurance system in Thailand 2008–2013

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