Paper reports nine Case Studies each of epilepsy and dementia patients. Content analysis of family and kinship care in their families reveals significant issues of social stigma, marriage, school education, employment etc. among epilepsy patients as main concern while care of dementia patients in family concerns to spouse caring. It explores stigma affecting socio-cultural understanding of epilepsy and dementia. How these patients are cared within their family. Who care them most? It illuminates relevance of family and kinship care givers and recommend culturally appropriate interventions in community of such neuropsychiatric diseases.

This paper illuminates cultural domains wherein we try to locate the causes of missing girls in Punjab. The prevailing cultural constructions of the social structures wherein girls are born in outnumber as compared to boys, but due to latter they continue to diminish since ancient times. It captures on one side the state historical efforts to check it by social legislations during the eighteenth, nineteenth centuries and during the pre & post independent periods. Further on other it links to the efforts of the State government to illuminate how advancement in medical technologies and medicines had been grossly mis/used to determine sex of unborn child and concludes that how these technologies have emerged as the integral parts of culture of Missing girls. Keywords: Missing Girls, Culture, Medical Technology and Demographic Variable.

<p>Paper highlights basic concepts of elder abuses and raises relevant issues concerning problems of elderly, which must be listened with utmost care. None of us claim convincingly that what is an extent of older person’s problems and what is the appropriate solution. It is only possible through a caring unit of society, the family, if restructured on the values and reframing the sensitivity among <em>kins n kieth</em>. Then elderly people may get a meaningful relationship among the family of genitor and extended family of procreator – younger children and their families. Otherwise their suffering, though how difficult or simple may, would continue as such, despite best economical resources, plans and programmes existing for them. Legal provisions to do exist to safeguard elderly people in family situations, but they are neither aware nor their progeny for caring them in extended families. Do we hear them or spend quality time as married sons or daughters, daughter in laws? Do our children spend time with grandfather? Or do we not leave them to alone with their suffering in silence? Overall in last, we do not have enough time to listen their problems-being alone, emotional disturbances, etc., and they remain to suffer in silences.</p>

Socio-cultural determinants affecting People Living with Epilepsy (PLWE) were explored between August 2010 and November, 2011 in Bareilly district of North India. Results reveal various aspects of their life: onset of first seizure, duration of suffering, their perception about daily life, marriage, family burden, etc. Further, it explored their activities during before and after treatment? PLWE face Stigma in the family as well as in their community. The capacity to do work and earn and expenditure incurred on hospital visits were major determinants affecting their life. Relationship of PLWE with other people and involvement in Community are other crucial socio-cultural determinants affecting their life. Keywords: Epilepsy, PLWE, Seizure, Stigma.

Legislation forms an important component in the implementation of mental healthcare. Legislation is an expression of society with regard to the way it views and cares for mentally ill individuals. It has long been known that there is a dynamic relationship between the concept of mental illness, the treatment of the mentally ill and the existing Law. Mentally ill persons are vulnerable and required protections and access to treatment programmes, significant degree of choice and respect for autonomy. Though there are several laws but these laws are not able to protect the right of the mentally ill person and person with the disabilities. This paper is emphasized on the human rights and legal provisions for mentally and physically challenged people and reviews the existing rights and their importance for the welfare of these groups and also emphasized on their drawback in an Indian Perspective.