Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged - Paperback

by Irudaya Rajan (Editor), Carla Risseeuw (Editor), Myrtle Perera (Editor)

'Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged' provides a detailed comparative study of social and economic issues facing the elderly in India, Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. All three countries offer interesting insights, and this book addresses a wide spectrum of issues faced by the elderly, and an understanding of the processes at work in the broader social and economic context.

Author Biography

S Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor, Research Unit on International Migration at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Carla Risseeuw is Professor of Intercultural Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Myrtle Perera is Vice Chairperson, Marga Institute, Colombo.