Navigating the Pandemic in India : Voices of Older Adults and Intersectional Realities / by Sujata Sriram, Swarnima Bhargava.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sriram, Sujata.

Contributor:

Bhargava, Swarnima.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quality of life.

Clinical health psychology.

Quality of Life Research.

Health Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Quality of Life Research.

Health Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book weaves together intersectional threads that underlie the experiences of older men and women in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. While older adults were considered particularly vulnerable to the scourge of the pandemic, there is scant first-hand evidence about how they understood the pandemic and how they were affected by it. Data about the effects of the virus on this population, as communicated by the government and the press, resulted in reductive/problematic narratives that shaped and colored their lives. The intersectional lens used in the book highlights the differential impacts of poverty, (dis)ability, gender, civil status, and health status on the experiences of older adults during the pandemic. This book brings forth first-person narratives of older adults navigating the Covid-19 pandemic in India. It is a handy ready reckoner for mental health and medical professionals, students in qualitative research methods, psychology, social work, geriatric medicine, health and public health, and public administration. The book's findings are provocative and generate curiosity about the lives and experiences of an age category seldom focused on.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction and Review of Literature – Intersections of Covid-19 and Older Adults in India. - Chapter 2: Methodology - Doing Narrative research with Older Adults in India during the Pandemic. - Chapter 3: Introducing the Participants of the study – Glimpses into the worlds of Kannan, Sister Alice, Seetha, and Rattan

Chapter 4: Origin stories of the virus - Making Sense of Covid-19

Chapter 5: Interruptions of Life caused by Covid-19 – Everyday routine, worship, work, medical care, travel and meeting loved ones

Chapter 6: Stories of Strength and Coping: Individual and Systemic Response to Covid-19

Chapter 7: Multiplicity of Losses due to Covid-19: Fears, grief, loneliness, questioning god and the government. Chapter 8: To Jab or Not to Jab – Questions and Concerns about the Covid-19 Vaccine

Chapter 9: Finale – Resetting the way we live.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789819788996

9819788994

OCLC:

1481796474