Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology

Tannistha Samanta is an Assistant Professor in the discipline of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Samanta received her PhD from the department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Samanta specializes in blending both quantitative and interpretive approaches to study intergenerational relationships, health, social capital and aging focusing primarily on India. 

Part I: Frameworks and Integrative Approaches.- Chapter 1: Bridging the Gap: Theory and research in social gerontology- Tannistha Samanta.- Chapter 2: Who will care for the elder caregiver?: Outlining theoretical approaches and future research questions - Subharati Ghosh, Benjamin Capistrant and Greta Friedemann-Sanchez.- Chapter 3: Social Psychology and Gerontology: Integrating theory to explain and intervene in age prejudice and discrimination in Europe- Sibila Marques, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Hannah J Swift, Christopher Bratt, Maria Luísa Lima & Dominic Abrams.- Part II: Culture, Contexts and Aging.- Chapter 4: Aging and Subjectivity: Ethnography, Experience and Cultural Context - Jason Danely.- Chapter 5- Neoliberalism and Resilience among older Yoruba adults in a semi-urban community, South West Nigeria- Ojo Melvin Agunbiade and Akanni Ibukum Akinyemi.- Chapter 6: Social Capital, interrupted: Sociological Reflections from old age homes, Ahmedabad- Tannistha Samanta and Jagriti Gangopadhyay.- Chapter 7: Engaging the Future as Ethnographic Object: Japan’s Aging Society, Crisis, Ontogenesis, and Cybernetics- Ender Ricart.- Part III: Health & Well Being.- Chapter 8: Antecedents of subjective wellbeing among older adults in Kerala, India- Irudaya. S Rajan, Anusmita Devi, Tannistha Samanta, Sunitha S.- Chapter 9: Early-life critical transitions in the relationship between current life stressors and depressive symptoms among community residing older Lebanese adults- ZMay Aydin, Abla Sibai and Anthony Rizk.- Chapter 10: Analysis of perceived health status among elderly in India: Gender and positional Objectivity- Zakir Husain  and Dona Ghosh.- Chapter 11: The Relationship between Spatial Activity and Well-being: An Exploratory Geographic and Psychological Analysis-Michal Issacson, Hans-Werner Wahl, Noam Shoval, Frank Oswald and Gail Auslander.- Chapter 12: The Changes in Disability-Free Life Expectancy and Inter-Generation Support for the Elderly In China: 2005-2010- Wei Guo.- Chapter 13. Elderly inpatient care utilization and financing in India: Is there a gender difference?- William Joe, Abhishek Kumar and Udaya.S. Mishra.