Interview With A Woman Interview Essay

I interviewed a woman who is in her late 60. She born in Bangalore in India For the confidentiality of her identity I am using a fictitious name ,Anita Sharma, 68 yrs old Asian woman, living with husband, son and daughter in-law.She perused and completed her PhD after her marriage.
She was telling me about how she struggled and managed to complete her education after two kids and added that her mother was a big supporter. She joined in the school as a teacher for a couple of years but then left as her younger son was not doing well health wise. She admitted that she is a very fond of their children and liked to care about everything for them. Her mother died after suffering from cancer 8 years back and after a year her father also died with a heart attack. She has three children and all are

doing well. She told me that she has always been an active person, doing her personal work and work involved with kids. She is a firm believer of god and the “karma”. She observes fast very often and does all the ritual related to religion but now she is not able to do as her blood pressure get low and she has medications to take.

She is strict vegetarian. She was little disappointed about not being as active as before in completing the entire task and because of the knee pain and arthritis. she is not able to do fasting but still she manages her all activities. She was happy been blessed with nice and supportive family. She lives high ranch house and because of the knee pain she avoids climbing the stairs and moved all the important stuffs on the ground floor and reorganized the temple and things which she needs every day on the ground floor. She has organized the kitchen as well the manner she finds easy. Like she kept all those groceries in the bottom shelf which she needs daily to avoid climbing up in stairs.When I asked her about, what it is likes is to grow older for you? Anita said, that I spent my life to fulfill duty honestly but as I am moving toward later in life I spend time in finding path toward moksh . She added, as you age you are enriched with lots of experience and you are in a position to guide the new generation” But she hates if somebody says to her that

she cannot anything because of age. Anita stated that she is facing problem with eating as her five teeth has been removed and she is not able to eat lot of food. She was influenced by her mother a lot. She was telling me that her mother was a very intelligent, expert and religious lady. She regretted about not perused her career further and was sad about refusing the position of principle offered to her in the past. Anita told me she still keeps up with studies and like to write a diary every day.
She loves cooking and she has lots of notes on recipes. She likes to experiment with cooking. She likes to travel and meeting new people as well. She is looking forward to having some more grandkids and her days revolve around with managing and completing the task involve with grandkids and religious activities. As seen in Indian culture, she doesn’t belive that paid caregiver is good option for older adult rather family members should effort colloratly in this regard.
Anita currently belongs to a religious community and socialized with members of the community. Another believe in god has helped her significantly with her aging process. With all up and down she always trusted god and this trust helped her a lot.
Anita is keeping up her bio-psycho-social-spiritual need by socializing with the religious community and finding happiness in caring granddaughters. I would like to suggest one more intervention to add some physical activity/ physiotherapy regime to cope up the problem of arthritis. She can even pursue her dream of teaching by joining the volunteer teaching communities.