An Aging India

Perspectives, Prospects, and Policies

Phoebe S Liebig, S. Irudaya Rajan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781317971924
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 perspectivesdemographic 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!

Index

AARP. See American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

AARP's international program, 232

Abuse, elder

in India, 6

in Indian context, 135–140. See also Elder abuse, in Indian context

Academy of Senior Citizens, 201

Activities of daily living (ADLs), 92

in national study of (1997–1998) old-age homes, 166

AD. See Alzheimer's disease (AD)

Adarkar Commission Report of 1944, 49, 218

ADLs. See Activities of daily living (ADLs)

Adopt-a-Gran program, 161

in Help Age India, 187

Age, as factor in disabilities in India, 92–95

Age Care India, 181, 190

Age Concern

India, 223

United Kingdom, 210

Age-Care India, 208

Aged, traditional values concerning, 215–217

Age well, 190

Aggarwal, V., 115

Aging

in Asia, 14–16, 15t

care for, old and new approaches to, 159–178

global scenario of, 13–16, 14t, 15t

in India

demography of, 69–77, 71t, 74t–76t
2001–2051, 11–30. See also
India, elderly in

foundations of, 4–5

geriatrics and, 144–147

healthy, determinants of, 71–72

policy for, 213–234

in colonial period, 217–218

development of, 220–224, 224t

introduction to, 214–215

1947–1980, 218–220

research on

behavioral, 36–37

biomedical, 35–36

early, 33–34

future of, 39–40

perspectives on, 31–43

introduction to, 32–33, 32t

social sciences, 36–37

strengths of, 37–39

trends in, 34–37

weaknesses of, 37–39

“Aging, Disability, and Disabled Older People in India,” 5

Aging populations, in China, 2

AICGPA. See All-India Central Government Pensioners' Association (AICGPA)

AIPTPA. See All-India Post and Telegraph Pensioners' Association (AIPTPA)

Aligarh Muslim University, 35

All-India Central Council of Pensioners' Associations, 195

All-India Central Government Pensioners' Association (AICGPA) (North India Region), 195

All-India Institute of Medical Science...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Foundations of Aging in India
• Economics, Health, and Social Networks
• Social and Familial Relations
• Current Interventions
• Advocacy and Policy
• Index