By borrowing from a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and the humanities, this book gives a more "human," personal voice to the many experiences of aging. The result is a new sort of social science research, one which often reads more like literature than social science. Indeed, the author uses a wide variety of techniques borrowed from the humanities, from hermeneutics to oral histories, in additio...(Read More)
"The author's primary insight is of extreme meaningfulness: every culture must confront the deterioration and death accompanying aging. How this confrontation has occurred in Indian culture has significance for understanding all cultures including contemporary advanced industrial cultures." -- Sheldon S. Tobin
The manner of aging is a cultural construct and there is a specifically Indian way of aging. That way is shown in this book through th...(Read More)
Enabling the Elderly
(November 1986)
Religious Institutions within the Community Service System Sheldon S. Tobin - Editor James W. Ellor, A.C.S.W. - Editor Susan M. Anderson-Ray, A.M. - Editor
Here three gerontological professionals have combined their diverse backgrounds in a timely and urgently needed study of how religious institutions interact with their communities to provide care for the elderly. In an easily accessible and well-written text, actual and potential services are described, and ways of enhancing religious/agency collaboration are suggested. Data are presented from studies in four communities and in a variety of provid...(Read More)
