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Death and Dying in India - Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly (Paperback)
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Death and Dying in India - Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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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. In 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. It will be of interest to academics in the
field of Medical Sociology/Anthropology, Medicine, Palliative care,
Public Health and Social Work, Social Policy and Asian Studies.
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