Care for the Ailing Senior Citizens : The Status of Unpaid and Paid Care in India
Contents: 1. Supporting community care for older persons/Ashok Sharma. 2. Britain's loneliness epidemic/Homa Khaleeli. 3. Elder abuse and depression aged women among the Paris/Aban Tavadia Bhatia. 4. Dementia a public health priority. 5. Gender health marriage and mobility difficulty among older adults in India/Amnisha Sengupta. 6. Home caregivers/Asha Patil. 7. Home healthcare for seniors seniors in need caregivers in distress/Health Council of Canada. 8. Caregiving stress in elderly women/Radha Murty. 9. Learning from other countries/Health Council of Canada. 10. Recruitment and retaining a home care work force/Health Council of Canada. 11. Training of care giving in India/J P Dubey. 12. The hegemony cracked the power guide t getting care onto the development agendas/Rosalind Eyben. 13. G\\Home modification assessment for caregiving/Ashok Sharma. 14. Making care visible will support women's rights/Rachel Mussie. 15. Women's empowerment needs/Marzia Fontana.
Care for the Ailing Senior Citizens in India analyses the phenomenon of unpaid and paid Home Care, and Community-based Care in India. Unpaid Care has been traditionally provided within the family, and to a large extent by female members of the family. The responsibility is now being somewhat shared by other members of the family as well. The nuclearization of the Indian family has given rise to the phenomenon of Paid Care both at the level of Home and the Community; Caregivers are now being hired by institutions for the ailing elderly or those receiving Palliative Care. Built into the process of Care is Respite Care for the caregiver both at the level of Home and Community. The growth of Caregiving as a profession has given rise to capacity building of such caregivers at the level of Certificate, Diploma or Advanced Courses. Some kind of standardization is required in the process of curriculum development for such Courses; the goal of patient-centred care and its sustainability continues to be the focus of such curriculum development.
