1960s Indian American Immigrant Grandparents and the Cultural Family Narrative

Abstract

Recent studies of aging Indian diasporic populations focus on grandparents who emigrate from India to be with their children or are in the U.S. seasonally. The post-1965 immigrant generation has been in the U.S. for almost fifty years and while the group is seen as a historic generation there have been relatively few accounts of their lives as seniors in the U.S. In Indian Diaspora: Voices of the Diasporic Elders in Five Countries, the editors point out the different aspects of aging including “physical, psychological, and social aging.”