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In India, various forums address intergenerational disputes involving older people and their adult children. Familial disputes arise due to fraudulent property transactions and/or abuse and neglect of older parents by children. While litigation is an option for older people, mediation and conciliation are considered a more suitable, age-friendly ap...
In late life, care for oneself may become particularly challenging owing to financial dependency or the experience of debilitating illness and disabilities. State support for older persons in India is quite dismal. Both, the inadequacy of palliative care facilities and old age homes as well as the quality of care provided, are disconcerting. The fa...
The vexed relation between law and age/ageing is most apparent in the context of older prisoners. Late life may be accompanied by disabilities and dependencies. So, access to appropriate forms of care including medical care becomes even more crucial in custodial institutions like prisons where older prisoners live isolated from society. Since the s...
Institutional care in India is considered as the last resort in a society that glorifies filial piety and familial responsibility of family-based caregiving for older kin. While private senior citizen homes and retirement communities are being established in some parts of the country, they cater mostly to the affluent sections of the society. The c...
Care for older persons in India is considered to be the prerogative of the family, particularly the adult children. The legal and policy discourse reiterates this notion as well. In a country that glorifies the notion of filial piety, one finds a rising number of instances of parental neglect and abuse over the last decade. Against this background,...
Tattwamasi Paltasingh and Renu Tyagi (Eds), Caring for the Elderly: Social Gerontology in the Indian Context. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India, 2015, 290 pp., ₹995, ISBN 9789351502630 (Hardcover).
The genesis of legal discourse around care for the elderly in India can be traced to the international gerontological discourse, which pathologizes ageing and attempts to rectify it by providing universal, technical solutions to the elderly. It completely ignores the subjective articulation of needs by elderly in different socio-cultural locations....
Popular depictions of values around care for the elderly in the media generate nostalgia for a value-rich past, in which caring practices were considered a family affair. The physical absence of family members for providing care is portrayed as a pathological symptom of contemporary society. The study, through analysis of cinematic representations,...
