ABSTRACT
As countries in East and Southeast Asia struggle with ongoing economic uncertainty, issues of employment, labour productivity, and financial restructuring tend to dominate social discourse. With immediate, sometimes day-to-day crises commanding the public spotlight, attention fades from less obvious, longer-term processes involving demographic evolution and changing national health profiles. The effects of these processes, however, will have a substantial, tangible impact on the well-being of today’s and tomorrow’s elderly populations, and will shape the manner in which countries redefine and structure their systems of old-age security.
