Ageing Care and Well Being:Reinventing Social Gerontology (Essays in Honour of Professor Jacob John Kattakayam) - Hardcover

1. Engaging with Old Age / N. Jayaram 2. The Family as a Safe Haven / Tulsi Patel 3. Issues of Ageing and the Aged in North East India / Bikash Deka 4. Challenges of Elderly People in Africa / Wurok Chan Malith 5. End of Life Care / C. Aruna 6. Ageing and the Aged / Priya Vijayakumar and Lekshmi V. Nair 7. Mental Health and the Elderly / Pratibha Pereira 8. Dimensions of Care for the Elderly / Pushpam M. 9. Elderly and Intergenerational Bonding / Subalekshmi G.S. 10. Elderly and Work Participation / Swapna Rani S.S. 11. Feminization of Caregiving / R. Indira 12. Feminization of Ageing and its Predicaments for Elderly Widows in India / Arvinder A. Ansari 13. The Semiotics of Femininity and Attitude Towards Ageing / Rekhasree K.R. 14. Informal Care and Health Related Quality of Life of Elderly Women in Kerala / Chitra S. Nair 15. Problems of Widow Headed Families / V.N. Sreekumar 16. Elderly in Kerala / Thomas Mathew 17. Social Security for the Elderly in India / Sivan Y.S. 18. A Sustainable Framework for Elderly Well-being / Sibin Mathew Medayil 19. Elderly Under Longer Institutional Care /Lekshmi V. Nair 20. Ageing in a Home Full of Strangers / Nisha Jolly Nelson 21. Ageing in Dignity or Abuse? / Vineetha Menon 22. Empowering Elderly Women / Reeja P.S. and Vinumol Devassy 23. Empowering the Elderly / Arun P. Bali 24. Cognitive Functioning in Old Age / Shabu B. Raj 25. Elderly as Subjects of Study / Biju Vincent