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Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians

Author : Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811627910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians written by Jagriti Gangopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the intersections between culture, context, and aging. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional, social, and psychological issues of the older adults in urban India. It is set in multiple sites such as Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, and Saskatoon to indicate how different cultural practices and contextual factors play an integral role in determining the course of aging. It also focuses on different narratives such as older adults living with adult children, older adults living with spouse, and older adults living alone to demonstrate the intricate process of growing old. Drawing from various sites and living arrangements of older adults, it sheds light on cultural constructions of growing old, ideas of belonging, the inevitability of death, everyday processes of aging, perceptions associated with growing old in India, acceptance of the aging body, and intergenerational ties in later lives. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of sociology, demography, and social scientists studying aging.

Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians

Author : Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811627908
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians written by Jagriti Gangopadhyay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the intersections between culture, context, and aging. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional, social, and psychological issues of the older adults in urban India. It is set in multiple sites such as Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, and Saskatoon to indicate how different cultural practices and contextual factors play an integral role in determining the course of aging. It also focuses on different narratives such as older adults living with adult children, older adults living with spouse, and older adults living alone to demonstrate the intricate process of growing old. Drawing from various sites and living arrangements of older adults, it sheds light on cultural constructions of growing old, ideas of belonging, the inevitability of death, everyday processes of aging, perceptions associated with growing old in India, acceptance of the aging body, and intergenerational ties in later lives. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of sociology, demography, and social scientists studying aging.

Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India

Author : Kaustav Bakshi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003852238
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India by : Kaustav Bakshi

Download or read book Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India written by Kaustav Bakshi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing. The volume looks at ageing within the contexts of the larger discourses of gender, sexuality, nation, health and the performance and politics of ageing. The chapters grapple with diverse issues around ageing and elder care in contemporary India, shifts in socio-economic conditions and the breakdown of the heteropatriarchal family. The book includes personal accounts and narratives that detail the daily experiences of ageing and living with disease, anxiety, loneliness and loss for both elders and their friends and families. The book also explores the models of alternative networks of kinship and care that queer elders in India create in India as well as examining narratives—in society, art, sports and popular culture that both critique and challenge stereotypical ideas about the desires, aspirations, and mental and physical capabilities of elders. Topical and comprehensive, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gerontology, literature, cultural studies, popular culture, sociology, social psychology, queer studies, gender studies, social anthropology, and South Asian studies.

The Cultural Context of Aging

Author : Jay Sokolovsky
Publisher : J F Bergin & Garvey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Context of Aging written by Jay Sokolovsky and published by J F Bergin & Garvey. This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aging in Culture and Society

Author : Christine L. Fry
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging in Culture and Society written by Christine L. Fry and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the former slave who became a scientist and devoted his career to helping the South improve its agriculture.

Cultural Perspectives on Aging

Author : Andrea Hülsen-Esch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110683113
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Perspectives on Aging written by Andrea Hülsen-Esch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of ‘age’ and ‘ageing’ have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.

Growing Old in Different Societies

Author : Jay Sokolovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Growing Old in Different Societies written by Jay Sokolovsky and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ageing

Author : L. Thara Bhai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ageing written by L. Thara Bhai and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Takes Up Crucial Problems Faced By The Old, Suggests Ways To Address Them And Discusses The Future Scenario By Viewing Ageing And The Aged In The Context Of Increasing Modernisation. The Papers Deal With Intergenerational Problems Of The Old, The Environment S Effect On Them And Their Nutritional Status And Health Problems.

Indian Diaspora

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 908790407X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Indian Diaspora written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In historic and ethnographic accounts of Indians living in diaspora, the elderly seem to receive much less attention than the new generation and its progress, prosperity and success. Using critical pedagogy approach, this book attempts to close that gap by focusing on the voices of the Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, and Gujarati diasporic Indians elderly, living in five countries.

The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures

Author : Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401785945
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures written by Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging. Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here. A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows. First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population. Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted. Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them. Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life.

Aging Across Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030765016
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Aging Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder abuse. It was thought that in Africa or Asia, elders were revered and taken care of. This certainly used to be the case. But the Western way has moved into these places, and we now find that elders are often left on their own or in institutions, as younger people have migrated to other cities and even countries. Grandparents often find themselves being parents to their grandchildren, a far cry from the kind of life they believed they would have as they aged. This book will explore all these issues and will be of use to students and researchers in this relatively new field.

No Aging in India

Author : Lawrence Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224620
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book No Aging in India written by Lawrence Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world.

Cross-cultural Communication and Aging in the United States

Author : Hana Noor Al-Deen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136686002
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Cross-cultural Communication and Aging in the United States written by Hana Noor Al-Deen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, the communication discipline has devoted increasing energy toward the study of aging, yet most of the research has insufficiently addressed a crucial factor in communicative relationships--culture. Meanwhile, cross-cultural/intercultural communication has not adequately addressed the aging process. Combining three powerful elements--communication, aging, and culture--all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society, this book focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures. Composed of original research by experts in their respective fields, the book combines communication, aging, and culture for a unique examination of those elements in American society. Section 1 deals with perspectives in cross-cultural communication and aging. These perspectives both illustrate the issues that greatly affect the lives of our elders and suggest ways to improve their status. Section 2 showcases three American co-cultures: Hawaiian, Arab, and Mormon illustrate how language, attitudes, and mentoring can serve as the links for maintaining cross-generational continuity in multicultural society. Section 3 demonstrates that many American organizations frequently contribute to the hardships that both internal elder customers (employees) and external elder customers (residents and patients) must endure. Section 4 incorporates popular culture and aging. It presents the role of selective popular media in portraying our elders. Because Americans rely heavily on the media, their mediated perceptions can have a profound impact on their attitudes toward the older population. Designed as a reader or supplementary text for college students in communication, gerontology, anthropology, sociology, and other related fields, this text can also be used by professionals in gerontological service areas, by libraries, and as a personal reference. It offers extensive appendices, figures, and tables for additional reference.

Aging and Cultural Diversity

Author : Heather Strange
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aging and Cultural Diversity written by Heather Strange and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-07-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Cultures, Elder Years

Author : Ellen Rhoads Holmes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803951341
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Other Cultures, Elder Years written by Ellen Rhoads Holmes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-05-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by The Gerontologist as "extremely well organized, balanced, and impartial" in its first edition. Other Cultures, Elder Years is once again available in a fully revamped second edition. This new edition provides a comprehensive, comparative viewpoint on our knowledge about worldwide patterns of aging. It addresses everything from demography to family relations, from perceptions of the life cycle to the impact of modernization on the aged. Replete with summaries of crucial studies from various parts of the world, Other Cultures, Elder Years also offers three extended case descriptions of Inuit, Samoan, and white American aged as well as an examination of aging patterns among major American ethnic groups.

An Aging India

Author : Phoebe S Liebig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317971930
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book An Aging India written by Phoebe S Liebig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Indian policy and practice on aging from a variety of perspectives! This pathbreaking collection provides something that has been missing in the literature on aging in India, especially for non-Indian audiences: studies of various aspects of aging in India combined with analyses of current policies, policy trends and recommendations. You'll examine aging issues from a variety of perspectives—demographic foundations, social and family relations, economics, health and disability, current interventions, and advocacy and policy. An Aging India also provides you with up-to-date references, explanations of differences and similarities within India's diverse population, examples of programs in various settings including a geriatric hospital, a major NGO, and old-age homes, and an overview of the development of India's national policy on aging. Where appropriate, comparisons with U.S. policy approaches are noted. An Aging India: Perspectives, Prospects, and Policies examines: the demography of aging in India the current state of research on aging, and the pitfalls associated with that research income, poverty, and the problems created by the lack of any widespread retirement income system in India the health status of Indian elders and what their healthcare prospects are the situation for the disabled elderly in India elder abuse in the Indian context social networks and grassroots organizations for seniors in India the role of Indian geriatric hospitals and old-age homes The insights of the top researchers and practitioners who contributed to An Aging India: Perspectives, Prospects, and Policies will strike home with their counterparts around the world. Make this book a part of your professional/teaching collection today!

Aging in Asia

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309254094
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Aging in Asia written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia's population, currently estimated to be 4.2 billion, is expected to increase to about 5.9 billion by 2050. Rapid declines in fertility, together with rising life expectancy, are altering the age structure of the population so that in 2050, for the first time in history, there will be roughly as many people in Asia over the age of 65 as under the age of 15. It is against this backdrop that the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) asked the National Research Council (NRC), through the Committee on Population, to undertake a project on advancing behavioral and social research on aging in Asia. Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives is a peer-reviewed collection of papers from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand that were presented at two conferences organized in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Indonesian Academy of Sciences, and Science Council of Japan; the first conference was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and the second conference was hosted by the Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi. The papers in the volume highlight the contributions from new and emerging data initiatives in the region and cover subject areas such as economic growth, labor markets, and consumption; family roles and responsibilities; and labor markets and consumption.