Contemporary Issues in Late Adulthood

Asha Banu Soletti is currently a Professor at the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work (SSW), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She is also the Dean of Student Affairs TISS. She teaches master's level courses in Public Health and Mental Health. She has published several articles on the concerns of older adults. Her research projects and field engagements focus on understanding, evolving and strengthening social interventions for health, with a special focus on marginalised communities. Her field engagement includes co-constructing community-led interventions for emerging public health concerns in urban and rural contexts. Presently, she leads Pragati: Integrated Rural Health and Development Project, a Field Action Project, which is located in a tribal belt and caters to the health needs of the Konkana, Warli, and Katkari tribes.

• Chapter 1: Visibly Invisible: Unpacking Contemporary Concerns and Challenges of population aging in India.- Chapter 2: Ageing and lack of Social Security among the urban poor in India.- Chapter 3: Older women in Self Help Groups (SHGs) of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM): An analysis of life narratives and possible interventions.- Chapter 4: Homelessness and Elderly Persons: Issues, Vulnerabilities and Possibilities.- Chapter 5: Problems and Coping Strategies of Elderly Inmates in Prisons of Nepal.- Chapter 6: Growing Older as Queer Women in India: An Exploratory Study.- Chapter 7: Menopause, Ageing and 'gray' in between: Learnings from experiences of domestic workers' lives in West Bengal.- Chapter 8: Overlooked No More – the Scope of Palliative Care in Caring for the Ageing.- Chapter 9: Understanding Experiences and Challenges of the 'ageing' informal caregiver of persons with Dementia.- Chapter 10: Association between depressive symptoms and functional disability among the older persons- Results from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI).- Chapter 11: Nutritional Status of Elderly in India: a Review.- Chapter 12: Malnutrition among the slum dwelling elderly: A study in Pune city.- Chapter 13: Conceptualizing Elder Abuse in the face of Old Age and Functional Limitations.- Chapter 14: Grey Divorce Counselling in Family Court Settings: A Practitioner’s Reflections.- Chapter 15: Intergenerational Intervention to Reduce Elder Abuse.