Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly in India
暫譯: 印度老年人的虐待與忽視

本書突顯了印度老年人虐待和忽視問題的不同面向，並討論其形式以及預防、介入和管理的手段。它提供了一個理解印度老年人虐待和忽視發生的框架，並將討論置於全球背景中。老年人虐待和忽視在南亞日益受到關注，而這是來自印度的首部綜合性報告。書中使用了來自印度不同地區的數據，描述了不同人口類別和社會階層中老年人虐待和忽視的各種面向。涵蓋了不同州的農村和城市地區，討論了家庭層面、寡婦、受HIV影響的人群以及居住在機構中的老年人對於老年人虐待和忽視的當前觀點。本書匯集了該領域專家的觀點，對社會和行為科學的研究者、學者、政策制定者以及非政府組織均具有參考價值。

Mala KapurShankardass is Associate Professor at Maitreyi College, University of Delhi (South Campus), India, and holds a doctoral specialization in medical sociology and post-doctorate in ageing studies. In addition, she holds a diploma in gerontology from the International Institute of Ageing (INIA), Malta and in Demographic Aspects of Population Ageing. She is a Fellow of the World Demographic Association. She was a panellist at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, where a United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) book was released with her chapter on 'Voices of Older People in India'. She was part of the Technical Expert Group for International Plan on Ageing and was involved in developing the Research Agenda on Ageing for the UN Program on Ageing. She was invited by the Spanish Government to review the Implementation of the Madrid International Plan on Ageing in 2005. From 2004 to 2007 she was a Consultant with the United Nations Population Fund Country Support Team (UNFPA CST) for the project 'Ageing in Asia'. In 2007 she developed a Strategy Paper on Ageing for the UNFPA, and in 2008 she served as an Advisor to the world Health Organization South East Asia Regional Office's Healthy Ageing program. Dr Shankardass has served as a Consultant to the International Institute of Ageing Studies, Malta; Colombo Plan, Sri Lanka; and Asia Training Centre on Ageing, Thailand. She was involved with the Formulation of the National Policy for Older Persons in India, and is a Member of the Core Group on Protection and Welfare of Elderly Persons, created by the National Human Rights Commission.
She publishes in reputed journals, magazines, newspapers and books. She authored the book 'Growing Old in India: Voices Reveal and Statistics Speak'. She is Asia Representative of the International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse(INPEA) and Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Adult Protection and the Polish Social Gerontology Journal. S. IrudayaRajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Currently, he is the President of the Association of Gerontology (AGI, India) as well as Kerala Economic Association (KEA). He has three decades of research experience and has published extensively in national and international journals on social, economic, health and demographic facets of population ageing. He is the lead author of the book India's Elderly: Burden or Challenge? (1999) and has edited the books Social Security for the Elderly: Experiences from South Asia (2008) and Elderly Care in India: Societal and State Responses (Springer, 2017). He developed the first longitudinal Ageing Survey in Kerala (India) in 2004; repeated every three years, it completed its fifth wave in 2016 and will enter its sixth in 2019. The second longitudinal Ageing Survey in Kerala started in 2013, completed its second wave in 2016 and will enter its third wave in 2019.
Professor Rajan has been involved in several projects on ageing funded by the United Nations (UN), United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), World Bank (WB), International Labour Organization (ILO), Helpage International, South Asian Network of Economic Institutes, Indo-Dutch Program on Alternatives in Development (IDPAD), Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and International Development Research Centre. He has also undertaken considerable research on international migration and is the editor of two series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration report - as well as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration and Development.

Mala Kapur Shankardass 是印度德里大學（南校區）Maitreyi College 的副教授，擁有醫療社會學的博士專業及老齡研究的博士後學位。此外，她還持有馬爾他國際老齡研究所（INIA）頒發的老年學文憑，以及人口老齡化的民主方面的文憑。她是世界人口學會的會員。她曾在聯合國（UN）大會的國際人口與發展會議（ICPD）及第二屆世界老齡大會上擔任小組成員，並在會上發表了她的章節《印度老年人的聲音》，該章節收錄於聯合國人口基金（UNFPA）出版的書籍中。她曾參與國際老齡計劃的技術專家小組，並參與為聯合國老齡計劃制定老齡研究議程。2005年，她受西班牙政府邀請，審查馬德里國際老齡計劃的實施情況。從2004年到2007年，她擔任聯合國人口基金國家支持團隊（UNFPA CST）的顧問，負責「亞洲老齡化」項目。2007年，她為UNFPA制定了一份老齡化戰略文件，並於2008年擔任世界衛生組織東南亞區域辦公室健康老齡化計劃的顧問。Shankardass博士曾擔任馬爾他國際老齡研究所、斯里蘭卡科倫坡計劃及泰國亞洲老齡培訓中心的顧問。她參與了印度老年人國家政策的制定，並是由國家人權委員會成立的老年人保護與福利核心小組的成員。

她在知名期刊、雜誌、報紙和書籍上發表文章，並著有《在印度變老：聲音揭示與統計數據發言》一書。她是國際老年虐待預防網絡（INPEA）的亞洲代表，並擔任《成人保護期刊》和《波蘭社會老年學期刊》的編輯委員會成員。

S. Irudaya Rajan 是印度喀拉拉邦提魯瓦納科爾的發展研究中心教授。目前，他是印度老年學會（AGI, India）及喀拉拉經濟學會（KEA）的會長。他擁有三十年的研究經驗，並在國內外期刊上廣泛發表有關人口老齡化的社會、經濟、健康和人口統計方面的文章。他是《印度老年人：負擔還是挑戰？》（1999）的主編，並編輯了《老年人的社會保障：來自南亞的經驗》（2008）和《印度的老年護理：社會與國家反應》（Springer, 2017）等書籍。他於2004年在喀拉拉邦（印度）開展了首個縱向老齡調查，每三年重複一次，並於2016年完成第五波，將於2019年進入第六波。第二次縱向老齡調查於2013年啟動，於2016年完成第二波，並將於2019年進入第三波。

Rajan教授參與了多個由聯合國（UN）、聯合國人口基金（UNFPA）、世界銀行（WB）、國際勞工組織（ILO）、Helpage International、南亞經濟研究所網絡、印荷發展替代計劃（IDPAD）、Shastri印加研究所及國際發展研究中心資助的老齡化項目。他還進行了大量有關國際移民的研究，並擔任《印度移民報告》和《南亞移民報告》兩個系列的編輯，以及《移民與發展》期刊的主編。