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In Indian context, care and support is one of the major challenges to be faced by the elderly in near future. In order to address the focal theme, on the one side, information was collected and presented here about the care and support viz., emotional economic and physical, received by elderly persons and on the other side how best these dimensions of care and support has been extended by the caregivers problems if any while extending such care and circumstances ...
This book is an outcome of the cross-sectional and empirical study carried out among about 1200 elderly persons belonging to four Community Development Blocks of a highly industrialized district (Combination) in Tamil Nadu. The major focus of this research work is on diverse issue related to rural elderly socio-economic differentials among men and women, living arrangements, socio-familial interactions as well as intergenerational contacts of the elderly, in ...
This book is an outcome of the data based research carried out by the researchers and scholars to bring out wide ranging issues focusing on four major parts, viz., Environment and Health: Its In-relationship, Climate and Health: Its Inter-relationship, Health and Sustainable Development, and Health Issues Related to Special Groups. The first section deals with the Household Environmental and Health of Family Members based on recent studies conducted in India, ...
This book is an outcome of empirical study cross-culturally carried out in early part of 1980’s in rural areas of South Central India viz., Andhra Pradesh. The theme of the study focuses on Nuptiality (Marriage) and particularly on age at marriage and its determinants, decision making on marriage, inter-generational changes in marriage patterns etc. Although most aspects of this study cover both husbands and wife as a unit, the last but one chapter is extended ...