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Culture shock, role reversal, and adapting to a new society are major challenges for immigrants to meet. For older immigrants, a move to a Western society with a remarkably different sociocultural milieu can be overwhelming and stressful. Perhaps because of the media stereotypes of Asians as the "model minority", the fact that most have immigrated recently, and the assumption that Asian Americans take care of their own, scant attention has been paid to the issues of older Asian immigrants.Acknowledging the diversity among older Asian Indian immigrants to the United States, this book evaluates their life satisfaction. This study conducted with 50 elderly Asian Indian immigrants finds that gender differences in levels of life satisfaction were significant, and that self-assessed health is the strongest predictor of life satisfaction. Other contributors to life satisfaction included reasons for coming to the United States, living arrangement, and social networks. The historical and sociocultural framework for aging in India is presented as a contextualizing exercise for the study of older Asian Indians in the United States. This study addresses the issues of cultural barriers, intergenerational relations, and filial piety, and highlights the implications for gerontological practice.
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated early in life and those who immigrated late in life—and features interview excerpts that bring these issues to life. The book shows how the life courses of individuals, including discrimination they may have faced in earlier years, can shape their golden years. As they grow older, Asian Americans continue to struggle to fit into American society—this is true even of those who are highly educated, relatively affluent, and have lived and worked with non-Asian Americans for most of their lives. As the Leaves Turn Gold discusses not only the challenges older Asian Americans face, such as lack of adequate support services, but also local and transnational solutions. As the Leaves Turn Gold is an important examination of aging, immigration, and social inequality.
This fascinating book addresses the cultures and concerns of five major ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese. Social Work Practice with the Asian-American Elderly examines the diverse needs of this rapidly growing population. It suggests interventions and service-delivery models that are culturally sensitive and appropriate for these clients, many of whom are first-generation immigrants still closely linked with their cultures of origin. This comprehensive book serves as a timely resource for both researchers and practitioners concerned with this neglected yet rapidly growing segment of the elderly population. Social Work Practice with the Asian-American Elderly offers both quantitative and qualitative research on essential topics, including: migratory grief assimilation depression elderly nutrition programs social support
Asian Indians in the US represent a diverse and growing immigrant minority. Many who have come in recent decades have sponsored older family members and are themselves aging, yet virtually nothing is known about how core, pan-Indian cultural values like filial piety and familism operate in Indian immigrant families with an elderly family member. With the aim of qualitatively exploring and describing attitudes towards aging, the elderly, and familial caregiving in the context of migration, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five, first generation immigrant Hindu Indian women (32+) who had lived with and provided care for an elderly relative (all parents) in the US. In this sample, only one participant had provided total care (bathing, feeding toileting, etc.) to a parent. While most interviews involved diverse expressions of veneration of the elderly and a sense of filial responsibility toward them, those who had encountered difficult caregiving more commonly mentioned the stresses and conflicts associated with multigenerational households. Also, in their perceptions and attitudes toward caregiving for the elderly, participants discussed and displayed a duality. One set of more "traditional"attitudes based on values of filial piety and familism emerged when participants spoke of their elderly parents. Another set of more modern or late capitalist attitudes emphasizing self-reliance or reliance on extra-familial (e.g. institutional) sources of old-age support emerged when participants spoke of their own futures. This duality in attitudes expressed by first generation Asian Indian immigrants toward aging and care-giving for the elderly has implications for emergent forms of cultural identity and for the aging-related health care needs they may experience. Many middle class immigrants with the economic resources needed to bring more family or to provide more personalized or in-home care (like those interviewed here) may place only limited demands on the health care system. However, those with more limited family or economic resources may have to rely on professional health care providers for assistance in culturally sensitive forms of caregiving for their elderly kin.
200 references to papers presented, journal articles, reports, and books. Focus is on unmet needs of the elderly, discussed in chapters dealing with American Indians, blacks, hispanics, Pacific Asians, and cross-cultural and general matters. Each entry gives bibliographical information and annotation. No index.