Living in Care Crisis: The Case of the Urban Middle- Class Elderly in India
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2023-03-31
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University of North Bengal
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Roy, Sinjini
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For ages, the aged in India lived in the care of their children,
grandchildren, other family members, close kin, and neighbours.
However, in recent times, especially in the urban middle-class context,
a growing number of elderly are made to live lonely lives in their own
house or apartment, mainly under the care of hired service providers
or in old age homes. In such living arrangements, the elderly, with
broken health and multiple ailments, live amidst insecurities, fear of
illness and death, the pain of living alone and away from children,
who are now dispersed to different places, and so on. They live with
the happy memory of living amid close ones and with never-ending
longing for their children and grandchildren who live afar. The care
crisis, thus construed, is rooted in some radical changes in the life
world of urban middle class families over the last two-three generations,
especially in the post-Independence period. The modernity-induced
rationalization of life, reflected in fertility checks, careerism, and
spatial movements of the younger generation, which have grown
manifold in the recent decades of globalization, have contributed to
this crisis.
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2348-6538