Elderly Care in India Societal and State Responses
This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-t
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derly Care in India Societal and State Responses
Elderly Care in India
S. Irudaya Rajan Gayathri Balagopal •
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Elderly Care in India Societal and State Responses
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Editors S. Irudaya Rajan Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala India
ISBN 978-981-10-3438-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3439-8
Gayathri Balagopal Independent Researcher Chennai, Tamil Nadu India
ISBN 978-981-10-3439-8
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Acknowledgements
The senior editor of this volume, as President of the Association of Gerontology (AGI), organized the 17th Biennial Conference of the Association of Gerontology, India (AGI), and International Conference on Engaging and Empowering the Elderly (ICEEE-2014) during September 15–16, 2014, at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. About 200 scholars and students participated in the conference, and 155 papers were presented both in the plenary and in the parallel sessions such as bio-gerontology, geriatric medicine, psycho-gerontology, elder abuse, economics of aging, health care, social support networks, living with dignity, well-being, living arrangements, and care for the elderly. The seminar was sponsored by HelpAge India; Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India; Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India; and United Nations Fund for Population Activities, New Delhi. As a chairman of the conference, the senior editor asked some of the participants to take a lead in producing edited volumes based on the papers presented at the conference as we received many good quality papers—rather unusual in most big conference
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