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  • Just like family? Care, life and death in old age homes

    Just like family? Care, life and death in old age homes

    Plummeting birth rates, increased longevity, and rising chronic illness are rapidly reshaping India’s demographic landscape. Furthermore, shifting family arrangements – driven by increased migration and nuclearization– force a departure from the idealized reliance on kinship networks. This challenges the long-standing nationalist moral myth of the ‘good old joint family’ as the sole site for elder…