Essays about: "elders"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 54 essays containing the word elders.

  1. 21. Adoption of mobile payment methods, a challenge for the senior citizens of Sweden?

    University essay from

    Author : Fanny Baudlot; Emil Engholm; [2019]
    Keywords : Mobile payment; Adoption; Senior citizens; Technology acceptance; TAM; Swish; Near Field Communication; NFC; Apple Pay; Samsung Pay; Sweden;

    Abstract : For the first time ever, mobile payments in Sweden have overtaken cash as the preferred method of payment when it comes to monthly payments. With cashless payments growing in Sweden and all over the world it is clear that mobile payment methods are going to increase in our everyday lives. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Filipino-American Care Chain : Gender, Transnational Migration and the Globalisation of Care

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Thydén Nanna; [2019]
    Keywords : Care chains; domestic workers; care drain; remittances; transnational families; Philippines; United States;

    Abstract : By caring for children, the elders and the ill, care workers are fundamental for the global economy and for peoples’ well-being. As confirmed in this thesis, the majority of domestic workers are migrant women. READ MORE

  4. 23. Constancy and Change Coexist: Chinese Filial Piety in the Era of Modernization

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Junhua Zhu; [2019]
    Keywords : Left-behind Elderly; Empty Nester; Filial Piety; xiao; Social Changes; China; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The world has witnessed a rapidly aging China and as a result of the social changes, numerous elderly people are living alone in rural and urban areas. No matter how they have been termed, the reality about the contemporary Chinese elders is that their needs for care is unlikely to be met. READ MORE

  5. 24. Can institutions be designed? : analysing the challenges to implementation of IWRM in Kyrgyzstan from post-institutional perspective

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Zhypargul Turmamatova; [2018]
    Keywords : integrated water resource management; post-institutional theory; Kyrgyzstan; water governance; institutional bricolage;

    Abstract : The concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) was developed in response to the growing concerns over water use worldwide. In Kyrgyzstan environmental changes, glacial melt, a growing population and increasing industrial needs for water call for the development of sustainable ways of water use. READ MORE

  6. 25. En tidsresa bland Norrköpings Promenader

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Linnéa Wallertz; [2018]
    Keywords : promenad; allé; avenue; boulevard; promenade; walk; walkway;

    Abstract : Syftet med detta arbete är att skapa ett historiskt underlag för Norrköpings kommun, som kan ge vidare information till deras fortsatta arbete med planer över anläggningens föryngring. En stor anledning till detta är att Promenaderna är byggnadsminnesförklarade sedan 1994 och det krävs en förståelse av historien och det förflutna för att veta hur man i fortsättningen ska arbeta med anläggningen. READ MORE