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Author Chopra Chatterjee, Suhita

Title Death and Dying in India : Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Poverty of dying in India: a comparative landscape; 2 Dying in the homeland; 3 Are Indian hospitals good places for the dying elderly?; 4 The rhetoric of dying in home; 5 Is palliative care the answer to care for the dying elderly in India?; 6 The failing empirics of biomedicine in dying matters; 7 End-of-life care: Retrieving death from the zone of obscurity; Index
Summary Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such 'medicalised death' entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglect. However, Government response to end-of-life care has been almost negligible and there is an acute information deficit on dying matters. This book examines different settings where elderly die, including hospitals, family homes and palliative set-ups. The discourse is set in the backdrop of international attempts to restructure and reconfigure the health delivery system for ageing population. It makes critical commentaries on global developments, offers state-of-art reviews of recent advances, substantiates and corroborates facts by personal narratives and case histories. The book overcomes a segmental understanding of the field by weaving various sociological, medical, legal and cultural issues together. Finally, the authors critically examine biomedicine's potential to meet the complex needs of the dying elderly.0In an attempt to bring cultural sensitivity in end-of-life care, they explore the lost Indic 'art of dying' which has the potential to de- medicalise death. Increasing public sensitivity to poor dying conditions of the elderly in India and facilitating changes to improve care systems, this book also demonstrates the limitations of the western specialization of death
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Death -- India
Aging -- India
Terminal care -- India
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Older people.
Death.
Aging.
Attitude to Death
Terminal Care
Aged
Death
Aging
elderly.
deaths.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Older people
Death -- Psychological aspects
Aging
Death
Terminal care
SUBJECT India
Subject India
Form Electronic book
Author Sengupta, Jaydeep
ISBN 9781351857475
1351857479