Abstract
The escalating elderly population in India is changing the demographic structure of the nation and is transforming the sociocultural dynamics of ageing in modern India. With process of globalisation, liberalisation and urbanisation, the family structure has been altered and has dialectically transformed the social landscape. Shrinking spaces, high cost of living, dual-career families and changed priorities result in negligence of the elderly parents. The disassociation of the youth—‘Gadget techno generation’—from the elderly generation within families somewhere points to the incapacity of the middle generation in building a connection of ‘ Communicative Action’. The increasing life expectancy instead a reason for celebration has become an anxiety for the society. The mushrooming of old-age home and growing indifference for the elderly parents signify the thinning of social values and rise of individualism in society. This paper deliberates on the factor which leads to the alienation of the elderly parents and critically examines the increasing complexity of both the ‘push and pull’ factor for their migration to old-age home in city of Lucknow. Bringing the narratives of the elderly in old-age home would help in understanding the extent of quiescence of family relations and their multifarious experiences of subalternity and marginalisation in modern India.
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