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Mental Health and Aging Women: Important Correlation

Dave, Parul & Mehta, Pallavi M.

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	Book ID : 34571
	ISBN-10 : 81-7835-673-2 / 8178356732
	ISBN-13 : 978-81-7835-673-0 / 9788178356730
	Place of Publication : Delhi
	Year of Publication : 2008
	Edition : (First Edition)
	Language : English
	522p., Index, 23 cm.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS:-
1. The socio-demographic and health status of the Indian elderly/Narayan P. Das and Urvi Shah.
2. Mental health and aging: glimpses of the WSRC Project/Parul Dave, Pallavi Mehta and Purnima Khanna.
I. Aging women and mental health: issues and concerns:
3. Mental health and aging: a gender perspective/Archana Sinha.
4. Adjustment problems of aging women/Dipti Oza.
II. Gender and depression:
5. Gender differences in depression: findings from a controlled study/Tushar Agravat.
6. Depression in middle aged women/Aruna Khasgiwala.
III. Social realities and mental health of women:
7. Determinants of stress in older women/Geeta Challa and K. Mayuri.
8. Mental illness: a risk factor for domestic violence in women?/Khyati Mehtaliya and G.K. Vankar.
9. Is there light at the other end of the Tunnel? Travails of widows from rural Gujarat whose children have out-migrated/Indira Mallya and Parul Dave.
10. Traumatic widowhood and major depression: a study of widows affected by communal violence/M.S. Saiyad, Arun Kumar, Chetan Patel, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Garg, Nilesh Bhaiya and G.K. Vankar.
IV. Some aspects of physical and mental health in aging women:
11. Effects of nutrients on mental health/N. Somashekara, Sandeep Shah and C.N. Ramchand.
12. Effect of Iron Folic Acid supplementation on the physical and mental performance of elderly, Anemic women/Pallavi Mehta, Komal Chauhan and Swati Khurana.
13. Physical and mental status of geriatric women of a district of Gujarat/Niraj Pandit, S.K. Choudhary, Jashmin Modi and Kalpesh Goswami.
14. Osteoporosis in aging women: a study of adult women in a local community of Gujarat/Gayatree Jadeja and S. Rema.
15. Common medical problems of the elderly/Biren Roy Chauhan.
16. Oral care for elderly people/Amit Parekh.
17. Psychological and social aspects of breast cancer: some observations from clinical practice/Jayshree Mehta.
18. Depression and Comorbid anxiety in older people: diagnosis and treatment options/Anand B. Khorana. V. Intervention strategies:
19. "Pancha-Kosha" purification in mental health management: with reference to aging women/B.M. Palan.
20. Dealing with depression during menopause: recommendations from Praxis/Monali Desai.
21. Brahmi: an alternative therapy for depression in elderly women/Pallavi Mehta, Tejal Vasavda, Arpita Shah and Komal Chauhan.

DESCRIPTION

This book is a collection of papers on a variety of cross-cutting issues on the theme of mental health and aging women. It brings together contributions from academics, researchers, and medical practitioners, in the form of review papers, hospital and community based quantitative and qualitative research studies, psychological evaluations, and observations and experiences of medical practitioners. Besides the findings of a research project on Mental Health and Aging this book gives demographic data on the socio-economic and health conditions of the aged population of India, explores the concerns and issues of aging women, their social realities and covers a range of problems related to the physical and mental health of elderly persons.

The role of nutrition in mental health and intervention strategies has also been discussed in some papers. The last part is an annotated bibliography of over 50 relevant literatures on aging, gender and mental health.

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