Caring alone: older adult care burdens, practices, and structural imbalances among China’s one-child generation

Research indicates that the issue of older adult care for parents of only children in the sample requires not only the reconstruction of a fairer and more sustainable older adult care ethic across society but also urgent institutional efforts to promote more inclusive and equitable support for older adult care and medical services. Meanwhile, the sample observations indicate that the development of technology and the establishment of a high-quality, affordable older adult care service system will become important pathways to easing the caregiving pressure of the one-child generation and providing greater social support.