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Unforgotten : Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India / Bianca Brijnath.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782383543
  • 9781782383550
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8/300954 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. METHODS AND CHARACTER BUILDING -- 2. THE DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS -- 3. THERAPEUTICS AND HEALTH SEEKING -- 4. THE ECONOMIES OF CARE -- 5. ALZHEIMER’S AND THE INDIAN APPETITE -- 6. STIGMA AND LONELINESS IN CARE -- 7. THE JOURNEY TO SILENCE -- CONCLUSION ‘This is the Time for Romance’ -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. METHODS AND CHARACTER BUILDING -- 2. THE DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS -- 3. THERAPEUTICS AND HEALTH SEEKING -- 4. THE ECONOMIES OF CARE -- 5. ALZHEIMER’S AND THE INDIAN APPETITE -- 6. STIGMA AND LONELINESS IN CARE -- 7. THE JOURNEY TO SILENCE -- CONCLUSION ‘This is the Time for Romance’ -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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