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Toward a comprehensive understanding of the needs of elderly Ghanaians
- Author:
- DARKWA Osei K.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 25(4), Spring 2000, pp.65-79.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This article discusses the health, caregiving, socioeconomic, and service needs of elderly persons who live in Ghana. Brief sociodemographic information on the population is given. Challenges brought about by population ageing are discussed. Barriers to the provision of services to address the needs of the population are examined. Finally, measures are proposed to meet the challenges of providing services to elderly Ghanaians.
Coping with old age in a changing Africa: social change and the elderly Ghanaian
- Author:
- APT Nana Araba
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 172p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at changes in society in Africa which could lead to a similar crisis in caring for older people to that taking place in the developed nations. Includes chapters on: Ghanaian traditions of kin, clan and informal caring systems; the increasing burden on older people of social change; coping with old age in the new Ghanaian cultural context; portraits of ageing; and an appropriate age care system for Africa.