Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians : Narratives from India and Beyond

This ebook discusses the intersections between tradition, context, and ageing. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional, social, and psychological problems with the older adults in city India. It’s set in a number of websites corresponding to Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, and Saskatoon to point how totally different cultural practices and contextual components play an integral function in figuring out the course of ageing. It additionally focuses on totally different narratives corresponding to older adults residing with grownup youngsters, older adults residing with partner, and older adults residing alone to exhibit the intricate means of rising outdated. Drawing from numerous websites and residing preparations of older adults, it sheds gentle on cultural constructions of rising outdated, concepts of belonging, the inevitability of loss of life, on a regular basis processes of ageing, perceptions related to rising outdated in India, acceptance of the ageing physique, and intergenerational ties in later lives. Given its scope, the ebook is crucial studying for college kids and researchers within the fields of sociology, demography, and social scientists learning ageing.