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Introduction Susan O. Long Assuring Care: Government Policies andPrograms 1. Cultural meanings of 'security' in ageing policies AkikoHashimoto 2. The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for ageingDaisaku Maeda 3. From the new deal to the new millennium: bridging the gap inUS health and ageing policy Brett R. South and Douglas D. Bradham 4. Changingmeanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state John CreightonCampbell 5. Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond themillennium Douglas D. Bradham Providing Care: Professional Caregivers 6. Welive too short, and die too long: on Japanese and US physicians' caregivingpractices and approaches to withholding life-sustaining treatments Michael D.Fetters and Marion Danis 7. Difficult choices: policy and meaning in Japanesehospice practice Susan O. Long and Satoshi Chihara 8. Policies and practicesnear the end of life in the US: the ambivalent pursuit of a good death DavidBarnard Assisting in Care: Non-Profit Organizations and Volunteers 9. Thedevelopment of social welfare services of voluntary organizations in JapanKiyoshi Adachi 10. The accountability dilemma: providing care for the elderlyin the US and Japan Yuko Suda Coordinating and Caring: Family Caregivers 11.Variations in family caregiving in Japan and the United States Ruth Campbelland Berit Ingersoll-Dayton 12. Recognizing the need for gender-responsivefamily caregiving policy: lessons from male caregivers Phyllis Braudy Harrisand Susan O. Long Facilitating Care of Self 13. The creativity of thedemented elderly: the use of the psychological approach in a Japaneseoutpatient clinic Yukiko Kurokawa 14. Visible lives: life stories and ritualin American nursing homes Thu Tram T. Nguyen, Joal M. Hill and Thomas R.Cole 15. Disclosure, decisions, and dementia in Japan: maximising thecontinuity of self Masahiko Saito 16. Concepts of personhood in Alzheimer'sdisease: considering Japanese notions of a relational self William E. Dealand Peter J. Whitehouse Epilogue 17. Downsizing the material self: late lifeand long involvements with things David W. plath