Further reading

 

BOOKS

Achenbaum, W. Andrew. Societal perceptions of the aging and the aged. In Robert H. Binstock and Ethel Shanas (eds), Handbook of aging and the social sciences. New York: Van Nostrand, 1985.

Bacon, Roger. The care of old age and preservation of youth. Edited and translated by Richard Browne. London: Thomas Flesber, Edward Evets, 1683.

Bali, Arun P. (ed) Understanding greying people of India. New Delhi: Inter India Publications, 1999.

Bambawale, U. Growing old in young India: a sociological study of women and ageing. Pune: Snehavardhan Publishing House, 1993.

Biswas, S.K. (ed) Ageing in contemporary India. Calcutta: Indian Anthropological Society, 1987.

Bose, A.B. and K.D. Gangrade (eds). The ageing in India: problems and possibilities. New Delhi: Abhinav, 1988.

Callahan, Daniel. Setting limits: medical goals in an aging society. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Charcot, Jean Martin. Clinical lectures on the diseases of old age. Translated by Leigh H. Hunt. New York: W. Wood and Co., 1881.

Chopra, Deepak. Ageless body, timeless mind: the quantum alternative to growing old. New York: Harmony Books, 1993.

Chowdhry, Dharam Paul. Ageing and the aged: a source book. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1992.

Cole, Thomas R. and Sally A. Gadow (eds). What does it mean to grow old? Reflections from the humanities. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986.

Cole, Thomas R. The journey of life: a cultural history of aging in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

D’Souza, V.S. Changing social scene and its implication for the aged. In K.G. Desai (ed), Aging in India. New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1989.

Dandekar, Kumudini. The elderly in India. New Delhi: Sage, 1996.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The coming of age (La Vieillesse). Translated by Patrick O’Brian. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1972 (1970).

De Souza, Alfred and Walter Fernandes (eds). Ageing in South Asia. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 1982.

De Souza, Alfred. The social organization of ageing among the urban poor. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 1982.

Desai, K.G. (ed) Ageing in India. Bombay: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1982.

Dhillon, P.K. Psychosocial aspects of aging in India. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1992.

Featherstone, M. and M. Hepworth. Ageing and old age: reflections on the postmodern life course. In B. Bytheway et al. (eds), Becoming and being old. London: Sage, 1989.

Fischer, D.H. Growing old in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Fry, C.L. (ed) Aging in culture and society: comparative viewpoints and strategies. New York: Praeger, 1980.

Fry, C.L. and J. Keith (eds). New methods for old age research. South Hadley: Berigin and Garvey, 1986.

Humphrey, D. Final exit: the practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying. Eugene: Hemlock Society, 1991.

Joseph, James. Aged in India: problems and personality. Allahabad: Chugh Publications, 1991.

Kaufman, Sharon R. The ageless self: sources of meaning in later life. New York: Meridian, 1986.

Keyfitz, Nathan and Wilhelm Flieger. World population growth and aging: demographic trends in the late twentieth century. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1990.

Marshall, Victor W. The social psychology of aging. Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1986.

Mishra, Saraswati. Problems and social adjustment in old age: a sociological analysis. New Delhi: Gian Publishers, 1989.

Parry, Jonathan P. Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Rajan, S. Irudaya and U.S. Mishra. Population aging: causes and consequences. In K.C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan (eds), Kerala’s demographic transition: determinants and consequences. New Delhi: Sage, 1997.

Rajan, S. Irudaya, U.S. Mishra and P.S. Sarma. A survey of elderly in India. Bangkok: ESCAP, United Nations, and Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies, 1994.

Rajan, S. Irudaya, U.S. Mishra and P.S. Sarma. India: national ageing trends. In, Life long preparation for old age in Asia and the Pacific. New York: United Nations, 1996.

Rajan, S. Irudaya, U.S. Mishra and P.S. Sarma. India’s elderly: burden or challenge? New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage, 1999.

Rajan, S. Irudaya. Growing old gracefully. In K.R. Nair (ed), Geriatric neurology. Trivandrum: Trivandrum Association of Neurology, 1992.

Registrar General of India. Census of India 1991. Population projections for India and states, 1996-2016. New Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, 1996.

Rogers, Andrei (ed). Elderly migration and population redistribution. London: Belhaven Press, 1992.

Sarkar, B.N. Demography of aged people. Calcutta: Indian Academy of Social Sciences, Survey Research Centre, 1989.

Sati, P.N. Retired and aging people: a study of their problems. Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1988.

Sharma, M.L. and T.M. Dak (eds). Aging in India: challenge for the society. New Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1987.

Sharma, S.P. and Peter Xenos. Ageing in India: demographic background and analysis based on census materials. Census of India, 1991, occasional paper 2. Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner, 1992.

Tilak, S. Religion and aging in the Indian tradition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

United Nations. World population projections to 2150. New York: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 1998.

van Willigen, John. Gettin’ some age on me: the social organization of older people in a rural American community. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Vatuk, Sylvia. To be a burden on others? Dependency anxiety among the elderly in India. In O.M. Lynch (ed), Divine passions, the social construction of emotion in India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.

Venkoba Rao, A.K. Psychiatry of old age in India. Ahmedabad: Torrent Laboratories, 1989.

Vishwanathan, R. Medical problems of old age. Bombay: Current Technical Literature Company, 1969.

World Bank. Averting the old age crisis: policies to protect the old and promote growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Zachariah, K.C. and S. Irudaya Rajan. Kerala’s demographic transition: determinants and consequences. New Delhi: Sage, 1997.

 

 

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Rajan, S. Irudaya, U.S. Mishra and P.S. Sarma. Living arrangements among the India elderly. ‘Hongkong Journal of Gerontology’ 9(2): 1995b: 20-28.

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