Download or read book The Asian Indian Elderly in America written by Jyotsna Mirle Kalavar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture shock, role reversal, and adapting to a new society are major challenges for immigrants to meet. For older immigrants, a move to a Western society with a remarkably different sociocultural milieu can be overwhelming and stressful. Perhaps because of the media stereotypes of Asians as the "model minority", the fact that most have immigrated recently, and the assumption that Asian Americans take care of their own, scant attention has been paid to the issues of older Asian immigrants.Acknowledging the diversity among older Asian Indian immigrants to the United States, this book evaluates their life satisfaction. This study conducted with 50 elderly Asian Indian immigrants finds that gender differences in levels of life satisfaction were significant, and that self-assessed health is the strongest predictor of life satisfaction. Other contributors to life satisfaction included reasons for coming to the United States, living arrangement, and social networks. The historical and sociocultural framework for aging in India is presented as a contextualizing exercise for the study of older Asian Indians in the United States. This study addresses the issues of cultural barriers, intergenerational relations, and filial piety, and highlights the implications for gerontological practice.
Download or read book Life Satisfaction of Immigrant Asian Indian Elderly in the United States of America written by Jyotsna Mirle Kalavar and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As the Leaves Turn Gold written by Bandana Purkayastha and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated early in life and those who immigrated late in life—and features interview excerpts that bring these issues to life. The book shows how the life courses of individuals, including discrimination they may have faced in earlier years, can shape their golden years. As they grow older, Asian Americans continue to struggle to fit into American society—this is true even of those who are highly educated, relatively affluent, and have lived and worked with non-Asian Americans for most of their lives. As the Leaves Turn Gold discusses not only the challenges older Asian Americans face, such as lack of adequate support services, but also local and transnational solutions. As the Leaves Turn Gold is an important examination of aging, immigration, and social inequality.
Download or read book Social Work Practice with the Asian American Elderly written by Namkee G Choi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book addresses the cultures and concerns of five major ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese. Social Work Practice with the Asian-American Elderly examines the diverse needs of this rapidly growing population. It suggests interventions and service-delivery models that are culturally sensitive and appropriate for these clients, many of whom are first-generation immigrants still closely linked with their cultures of origin. This comprehensive book serves as a timely resource for both researchers and practitioners concerned with this neglected yet rapidly growing segment of the elderly population. Social Work Practice with the Asian-American Elderly offers both quantitative and qualitative research on essential topics, including: migratory grief assimilation depression elderly nutrition programs social support
Download or read book Portraits of Asian Indian Elders in America written by Narsi Patel and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes Towards the Elderly and Caregiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants Residing in Cincinnati written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Indians in the US represent a diverse and growing immigrant minority. Many who have come in recent decades have sponsored older family members and are themselves aging, yet virtually nothing is known about how core, pan-Indian cultural values like filial piety and familism operate in Indian immigrant families with an elderly family member. With the aim of qualitatively exploring and describing attitudes towards aging, the elderly, and familial caregiving in the context of migration, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five, first generation immigrant Hindu Indian women (32+) who had lived with and provided care for an elderly relative (all parents) in the US. In this sample, only one participant had provided total care (bathing, feeding toileting, etc.) to a parent. While most interviews involved diverse expressions of veneration of the elderly and a sense of filial responsibility toward them, those who had encountered difficult caregiving more commonly mentioned the stresses and conflicts associated with multigenerational households. Also, in their perceptions and attitudes toward caregiving for the elderly, participants discussed and displayed a duality. One set of more "traditional"attitudes based on values of filial piety and familism emerged when participants spoke of their elderly parents. Another set of more modern or late capitalist attitudes emphasizing self-reliance or reliance on extra-familial (e.g. institutional) sources of old-age support emerged when participants spoke of their own futures. This duality in attitudes expressed by first generation Asian Indian immigrants toward aging and care-giving for the elderly has implications for emergent forms of cultural identity and for the aging-related health care needs they may experience. Many middle class immigrants with the economic resources needed to bring more family or to provide more personalized or in-home care (like those interviewed here) may place only limited demands on the health care system. However, those with more limited family or economic resources may have to rely on professional health care providers for assistance in culturally sensitive forms of caregiving for their elderly kin.
Download or read book Population Profiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Minority Elderly in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 references to papers presented, journal articles, reports, and books. Focus is on unmet needs of the elderly, discussed in chapters dealing with American Indians, blacks, hispanics, Pacific Asians, and cross-cultural and general matters. Each entry gives bibliographical information and annotation. No index.
Download or read book American Indian Elderly written by National Indian Council on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Environment of Elderly Native Americans written by American Indian Nurses Association and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian American Elders in the Twenty first Century written by Ada C. Mui and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or individuals who joined their American families later in life. Yet despite the significant presence of Asian Americans in this country, adequate resources tracking their health over the life span are surprisingly scarce. With this book, Ada C. Mui and Tazuko Shibusawa provide necessary data on the psychosocial well-being of Asian American elders. Focusing on the six largest Asian American groups (Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese), they address issues relating to methodology, physical and mental health, intergenerational relationships, informal support, acculturation, stress, economic well-being, productive aging, and the utilization of services, such as Medicare, food stamps, physician care, home health care, community-based outreach, and emergency rooms and hospitals. By linking research findings to policy, practice, and program recommendations, Mui and Shibusawa create a vital resource that can be used in multiple disciplines, including social work, public health, nursing, geriatric medicine, social policy, and other helping professions. No other text offers such a comprehensive and up-to-date portrait of the unique challenges facing Asian Americans as they age.
Download or read book Asian Indian Older Adults in Silicon Valley written by Anita Jhunjhunwala Mukherjee and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Indians who immigrate to the United States late in life to reunite with their children often form a secluded community. As one of the most under-researched segments of the population, very little is known about their lives. This new study, therefore, intends to create a small opening in the closed walls that surround the community and give us all a glimpse into their world. Lack of research forces service providers to treat this population with relative ignorance of their underlying foundations. Through the exploration of multiple dimensions of this growing ethnic minority group, this book greatly contributes to the multicultural counseling field. With depleted social capital, resulting isolation, and other problems that affect quality of life, these seniors would greatly benefit with the design of programs specifically targeted toward them. The first study of its kind, this enlightening book addresses the needs of this poorly understood community. Asian Indian Older Adults in Silicon Valley is based off of dissertation research on this secluded community. A definitive resource in understanding what contributes to the successful aging of this ethnic minority population, the book sheds light on the multiple risks of aging and immigration late in life. Proving to be extremely useful to a multitude of people, this educational study could be utilized by seniors and their families, service providers such as counselors, therapists, and mental health professionals, researchers, and government and policy-making bodies that deal with the ever-changing demographics of our country. A multifaceted and multipurpose new book, Asian Indian Older Adults in Silicon Valley is perhaps one of the most useful tools that proponents of this population group have ever had.
Download or read book No Aging in India written by Lawrence Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility—encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties—combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies—the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.
Download or read book Asian Indian Culture in America written by Urmila Mohapatra and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minority Elderly written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming American Being Indian written by Madhulika S. Khandelwal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed—the highly educated professional elite who came to this country from the subcontinent in the 1960s has given way to a population encompassing many from the working and middle classes. In her fascinating account of Indian immigrants in New York City, Madhulika S. Khandelwal explores the ways in which their world has evolved over four decades.How did this highly diverse ethnic group form an identity and community? Drawing on her extensive interviews with immigrants, Khandelwal examines the transplanting of Indian culture onto the Manhattan and Queens landscapes. She considers festivals and media, food and dress, religious activities of followers of different faiths, work and class, gender and generational differences, and the emergence of a variety of associations.Khandelwal analyzes how this growing ethnic community has gradually become "more Indian," with a stronger religious focus, larger family networks, and increasingly traditional marriage patterns. She discusses as well the ways in which the American experience has altered the lives of her subjects.
Download or read book Examining the Experience of Aging Out of Place in the United States for Asian Indian Late life Immigrants and the Risk and Protective Factors Within Multigenerational Asian Indian Families written by Mavath Sailaja Subramaniam and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Asian Indian older immigrants who settle in this country after the age of 60 are sponsored by their adult children under The Family Reunification Act of 1990, which offered many naturalized and legal immigrants the opportunity to encourage their parents to relocate to the United States (U.S.). The primary reasons that late-life immigrants relocate to the U.S., are to assist their adult children with childcare or to facilitate caregiving. They are often a vulnerable population due to limited English language proficiency, little or no U.S. work experience and weak ties to social institutions. Among Asian Indians, there is greater reliance on families who play a crucial role in the health and well-being of older adults. Using an integrated framework incorporating aspects of Acculturation theory with the Relational and Resilience Theory of Ethnic Family Resilience, this qualitative study focuses on the unique challenges of aging out of place in the immigrant context, in addition to highlighting the concomitant challenges faced by the families in adjusting to multigenerational living arrangements and intergenerational relationships. A total of 20 participants from 8 Asian Indian families residing in the United States, were interviewed using qualitative in-depth interviews. The participants consisted of 9 late-life parents aged 70 to 89 who relocated to the U.S., between 5 to 20 years ago, 8 adult children with whom the parents reside and 3 spouses. Data were analyzed using a thematic analysis protocol. The findings suggest that late-life immigrants can adapt to U.S. culture with the support of their families and with the addition of community involvement. Positive relationships with children and grandchildren support this acculturation process and provide a route to adaptation for older adults that also contribute to family well-being. The reciprocity of benefits for older adults and their families also enhances the intergenerational aspects of family resilience. Research findings will contribute to the development of a resilience framework that will help inform effective assessments and intervention strategies, for clinicians and other helping professionals, in their efforts to identify key family processes that cultivate, develop, and nurture family system resilience in immigrant families.
