A recent mainstream Bollywood film Badhaai Ho (a popular Bollywood film released in 2018) challenges stereotypes and focused on the intimate needs and desires of middle class older Indians.
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No one wants to be alone, yet, for approximately 10% of older people, loneliness is a lived reality and has been acknowledged as a policy issue globally.
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‘I like to think I am in the process of living with loneliness’: Co-developing cross-generational letter-writing with higher education students and older people
Across generations, their correspondence provided them with additional emotional benefits derived through letter writing.
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Public library programming can also oppose ageism by prompting library staff to consider and question the conceptions and practices surrounding old age. Library staff described the tensions that exist around …
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Empirical work thus far suggests that both between and within individual variability in physical functional limitations and cognitive impairment appear to be more closely tied to race/gender/class-based opportunity structure and …
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End-of-life care in nursing homes: Allowing for self-determined dying in a ‘total social institution’
In the last days of life, residents are most often not in a position to express their will, and nurses interpret minimal bodily signs as expressions.
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Rethinking dementia and the arts through feminist material perspectives is to create situations in which the distinction between those with and those without a dementia become irrelevant, and where a …
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The International Network for Critical Gerontology (INCG) was designed to create a meaningful communityof scholars that are curious and engaged in the active exchange of ideas and practices.
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Familialism will continue because of resource limitations, uncertainties regarding responsibility, and the political status of the family.