Women, Ageing and Mental Health

[Mittal Publications]

Women, Ageing and Mental Health

by Armita Bagga, Anuradha V. Sakurkar

 

About the Book

This book presents a variety of cross-cutting issues on the theme of mental health and aging women. Until now little existed in the way of mental health of older women. Rich with primary data, Women, Ageing and Mental Health fills the void. It presents latest research on older women as it explores the interrelationships of socio-cultural-demographic factors, biological changes and physical health, linking all these with mental health. The book addresses the issues of middle class Indian women some of them born a few decades before India attained its freedom. After an introductory chapter on the global and Indian scenario of feminisation of ageing, emphasis is upon the significance of such studies in the changing social realities of the 21st century. Considering that anthropometric characteristics of individuals and populations can also be used as predicators of ill health, this simple non-invasive technique was, therefore, used liberally to examine the biological age changes in women. This is perhaps the first ever research studying the anthropometric age changes in Indian women. Thus this book presents a penetrating analysis of the primary theme of mental health of women in old age, taking into consideration a range of factors possibly influencing it. Though not a text book, the book would serve as a useful reference document in universities and colleges teaching gerontology and geriatrics; research institutes, non-government organisations working in the fields of health and welfare of the elderly, including the supervisory staff of old-age-homes, day- care- centers, geriatrics nursing staff; and policy planners in the State and Central Ministries to help them understand the magnitude of physical and mental health problems of our ageing women; the inter-relationship of socio-demographic factors, physical health and mental health, the focal point of this book.

 

 

 

About the Author

Amrita Bagga, (b. 1947) a specialist in gerontological anthropology and biological anthropology is Professor Emeritus and Former Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Pune in Maharashtra. A post-graduate from University of Delhi, and with an ICMR fellowship, she received her PhD degree from the University of Pune where she was teaching since 1985 and retired in 2007. Realising the growing need, she introduced ‘Biosocial Gerontology’ as an optional course in 2001 in Pune University. Her gerontological research interests took her to Stanford University, California, Italy and Hungary (under Indo-Hungarian Cultural Exchange programme of U.G.C). A former Fellow of Salzburg, Austria, she was invited by WHO to Kobe, Japan in 1998 to present a Country Report on Ageing Scenario of women in India. She was a research associate at Inter University Center of Indian Institute of Advance Studies at Shimla from 2005 to 2007 and at present is Visiting Professor at some universities. She has published extensively in national and international journals. Her study on the immigrant Sindhis, Punjabis and Sikhs of Pune is included in Government of India’s well-known publication People of India. She is the author of Finger and Palm Prints of Schizophrenics (1989) and co –author of Women and Ageing: A Study in North East (2006), both by Mittal Publications, New Delhi.

 

Anuradha V. Sakurkar (b. 1974) is a free lance Anthropologist-com-Gerontologist. She did her Master’s in Anthropology from the Department of Anthropology of University Pune holding a position in merit and is a recipient of Dr. Bina Roy Memorial Asian Fellowship for her PhD in Anthropology. After her stint as research and teaching assistant,she worked as a Research Officer in International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay. Later she left her job to work as an independent researcher.

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ISBN : 8183244289 ||  Price : 795.00 || Year of Publication : 2013 || Order Online

 

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