Geriatric Life Style Profile in an Urban Slum of Maharashtra
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 7
Abstract
Elderly age also known as Geriatric is increasing in number in Developing countries. Life style characteristics are important in determining the quality and quantity of life. Many current day problems especially of the geriatric population like hypertension, diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis are related to nutrition and lifestyle. This study is undertaken to study the lifestyle pattern of the geriatric population in the field practice area of Dr. Shri Guru Govind Singh Memorial Hospital (S.C.G.M.C), Nanded. It is a community based cross sectional study, conducted from Jan 2013 -Dec 2014.A total of 600 subjects aged 60 years and above were selected by probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling method among 11 wards in study area. The data was entered in Microsoft Excel and analyzed by using frequency and percentages. Majority of study subjects i.e. 74.8% were engaged in sedentary life style and maximum study subjects i.e.46.3% spent their leisure time in gossiping Out of 600, majority of study subjects i.e. 161(26.8%) were addicted to tobacco chewing/ Gutkha followed by 153(25.5%) were addicted to others like pan, betel nut, hukka , 133 (22.2%) were not addicted ,69(11.5%) had multiple addiction,58(9.7%) were smokers and 26(4.3%) were addicted to alcohol. .Behavior and lifestyle modification in the form of primordial prevention and counseling of the high risk groups should be carried to improve the quality of life of the aged. Keywords: Addiction, Lifestyle, Geriatric, Leisure time, Urban, Ageing.
Authors and Affiliations
Swapnil Jain, Doibale MK, Shabana Shaikh, Kaware AC, Brahmankar TR, Mathurkar M. P
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