As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with
dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India
cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through
illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich
ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care
for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am
to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for
seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book
illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal
experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and
the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.