Bibliographic record
Abstract
Current studies on aging emphasize that Canada's population is steadily growing older and existing policies and programs need to adjust to these changes. Termed the "apocalyptic demography" ideology, scholars believe that this trend will place higher demands on the young to pay to meet the needs of the aged. A criticism of this ideology is its failure to recognize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity within the aging community and in the individual experiences of aging. This work examines the aging process among South Asian communities in Vancouver by aiming to answer the following three questions: (1) What factors do South Asians consider when they think about caring for elderly parents? (2) What services for the elderly currently exist and what are their usage patterns? (3) What are the current and anticipated caring needs of South Asian elders? Data for this study was collected through interviews and focus groups conducted with South Asian elders, their adult caregivers, and community service providers. The results of this research indicate that adult caregivers are concerned with values such as filial piety, primogeniture, family dynamics, and caregiver burden when they consider caring for their elderly. Weekly South Asian support groups that currently exist in Vancouver provide outlets where elders can socialize with others and learn about community resources. There appears to be no strong preference for a particular type of elder care. However, many South Asian elders and their families cite deteriorating health as the main reason they would consider using care facilities. While current demographics of the South Asian communities in Vancouver counteract the "apocalyptic demography" argument by indicating no strong urgency to meet the needs of the elders, these needs will gradually change in the future. In Vancouver, South Asian communities tend to have individuals who display more supportive networks of social resources suggesting a lesser demand on government-run services. By organizing more community-based services for elders as an extension of traditional family caregiving, this method of elder care can serve as a model for meeting the needs of other aging populations throughout the province without creating a strong dependency on government-run resources.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".