Navigating the Pandemic in India

Voices of Older Adults and Intersectional Realities
2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-8898-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sriram, Sujata

Bhargava, Swarnima

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Sujata Sriram is Professor and Dean at the School of Human Ecology (SHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai. She has been at TISS from 2003. She was awarded the Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, 2010-11, at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. She has been in the field of higher education for over three decades. Before her stint at TISS, she taught at Delhi University. She is trained in Human Development and Psychology and is passionate about finding answers to abstruse and abstract issues. She has written and published on issues and themes of psychology and human development.

Swarnima Bhargava is a PhD scholar at the School of Human Ecology (SHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai. She practices as a clinical psychologist and works with adolescents and young adults. She believes in de-pathologizing frameworks of health and wellbeing such as those offered by narrative therapy.