Not Your Usual Resilience: Tagore, Arts, and Communal Restoration in an Old Age Home in West Bengal

From Mad in South Asia: How do you reach out with mental health support to a group of older adults in an old age home who have no experience of it? Who have no living family member to fall back on; who would have had to spend their lives on the streets if not for a charitable old age home that took them in. They have lost everything once, their loved ones, homes, lands, money, identity and more. And here they are, most of them living in gratitude and anticipation that this is probably the best that they could get — and silently praying that death meets them with grace.

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