Social Aspects of Aging in Indigenous Communities

Jordan P. Lewis, Aleut, Native Village of Naknek, is the Associate Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team and Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. He received his MSW from Washington University in St. Louis and his PhD in Cross Cultural Community Psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His expertise is in Indigenous successful aging, generativity and healthy aging, and cultural constructions of Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. He developed the concept of Indigenous cultural generativity, and the role of cultural practices and generativity in dementia caregiver health and wellbeing. Tuula Heinonen, Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, holds an MSW from McGill University, a DPhil from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and an Advanced Diploma in Art Therapy from Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. Her scholarly interests include arts-based methods in teaching, research and writing, international social work, aging of women across different cultural contexts and social work in the health field. She has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and books and continues to teach, supervise graduate students and write since her retirement from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2018.

Chapter 1. The Cultural Determinants of Healthy Indigenous Aging
Michael Yellow Bird, Gina Belton and Jamie Jensen
Chapter 2. Active Aging in Mountainous Villages: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Older Adults in Taiwan
Hai Luo
Chapter 3. Locating Aging in India: Indigenous Perspectives of the Khasis and Jad Bhotiyas
Juster Lyngdoh and Malathi Adudsumalli
Chapter 4. Socio-cultural Beliefs and Health Seeking Behavior among Older Adults in Selected Rural and Urban Areas in Lagos State, Nigeria
Fatai A. Badru and Oluwafunmilayo T. Adekola
B. Aging and Social Policy: Challenges and Effects on Indigenous Older Persons
Chapter 5. Lapland in Transformation: Impacts on Cultural Well-Being of the Older Population, with Special Reference to Indigenous Residents
Shahnaj Begum
Chapter 6. Indigenous Adults in Taiwan: The Aging Population and Related Policy
Kui Kasirisir and Hai Luo
Chapter 7. Development of the Indigenous Long Term Care System in Taiwan
Hung-Yu Ru
Chapter 8. Indigenous Spirituality, Decolonization and Restoration of Traditional Elders' Ancestral Knowledge Today: Social Work and Aging
Julian Kunnie
C. Effects of Social Change on Communities, Families and Older Persons
Chapter 9. Aging in the Contested Floodplain: Challenges of Indigenous People of the Kafue Flats
Fred Moonga
Chapter 10. Survival Strategies of Older Adults in the Manipuri Community in Bangladesh
Tulshi Kumar Das
Chapter 11. Elderly Care in Rural Ghana: Support System and Survival Strategies of Older Persons in Bamang, Ashanti Region
Kwadwo Ofori-Dua
Chapter 12. Socioemotional Challenges of Indigenous Elders: A Study Based on a Rural Village of Northern Sri Lanka
Subramaniam Jeevasuthan and Varatharajah Jeyaruban
D. Emotional and Psychological Issues
Chapter 13. Etahi Kaum? tua Momeki: Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older M?ori Living in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Stella Black, Tessa Morgan, Janine Wiles and Merryn Gott
Chapter 14. Loneliness among Indigenous People in Chile: A Neglected Issue
Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Esteban Sànchez-Moreno and Vicente Rodriguez-Rodriguez
E. Contributions of Indigenous Older Persons
Chapter 15. Honoring and Preserving Culture through Indigenous Cultural Generative Acts to Reduce Generative Mismatch and Improve the Health of All Generations
Jordan Lewis
Chapter 16. Continuity, Connectedness and Community: An Alaska Native Lifecycle and Explanatory Model of Caregiving Networks
Maria Crouch and Rosellen Rosich
Chapter 17. Reigniting the Indigenous Spirit: Indigenous Elders and Organizations
Jason Albert, Susannah Walker and Gilbert Kewistep
Chapter 18. Examining Inter-Generational Ties and Roles: From the Lens of Tribal Older Persons in India
Jennifer Philip and Asha Banu Soletti
Chapter 19. Shared Role and Responsibilities of Older Adults in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Unrecognized Contributions to their Families and Communities
Shamila Sivukumaran and Subramaniam Jeevasuthan
Conclusion
Tuula Heinonen (with Jordan Lewis)
Index