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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Brijnath, Bianca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782383550; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782383550
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bianca Brijnath.

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.