From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India capt

Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and aro

This Book Draws On Extensive Research With Families In Varanasi, And Examples From Indian Cinema, Advertising And Popular Medicine, To Examine The Repercussions

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive ov