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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.