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Fieldwork with old persons and their families in four neighborhoods of Banaras, India, stratified by class, is presented to suggest the need of an anthropology of senility.

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A "loss of self" is implicit in the current Alzheimer's construct, and it has been argued that, consequently, the subjective experience of being and becoming old has become increasingly distressing.

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