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    Unforgotten: Love and the culture of dementia care in India

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    Authors
    Brijnath, Bianca
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Book
    
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    Brijnath, B. 2014. Unforgotten: Love and the culture of dementia care in India. New York: Berghan Books.
    ISBN
    9781782383543
    School
    School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42689
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.

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