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    Alzheimer's and the Indian Appetite

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    Authors
    Brijnath, Bianca
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Brijnath, B. 2011. Alzheimer's and the Indian Appetite. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. 30 (6): pp. 610-628.
    Source Title
    Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
    DOI
    10.1080/01459740.2011.582473
    ISSN
    0145-9740
    School
    School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13907
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Activities such as cooking, feeding, and eating speak to the pleasures and difficulties of caring for a person with dementia. In this article, I draw on ethnographic data from Delhi to examine the links between three types of food and caregiving in relation to sweetness and pleasure, drug foods and containment, and the feeding tube and sustaining life. I will illustrate that food offers ways to retain identity, build relations, improve function, and show love. In so doing, I contribute to our understanding of how care is conceived cross-culturally and offer potential insight into how interventions using food can enhance personal relationships in home and institutional settings.

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