Morbidity profile and its determinants among the elderly residing in rural field practice area of Shirur, rural health training centre, Bagalkot-North Karnataka-a cross-sectional study
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction Old age is an incurable disease as said by Seneca As Sir James Sterling Ross commented You cannot heal old age You protect it you promote you extend it Scientific advances have increased the life span of man The life expectancy at birth is estimated to be 676 in men and 701 years in women in developing countries increasing the number of old age people in the society Aged elderly have a number of health problems and the assessment of the problems is of utmost importance and the need of the hourMaterials and Methods It was a cross sectional study done in field practice area of Department of Community Medicine SN Medical college Bagalkot for a duration of four months on 274 elderly participants Data was collected using a predesigned pretested proforma Morbidity pattern was assessed by clinical examination and appropriate assessment toolsResults Majority were young old elderly with very low levels of literacy belonging to class IV socioeconomic class 321 were unemployed 434 were Below Poverty Line Joint families were predominant among the study population ie 668 Majority of the elderly ie 949 were living with their families Generalized weakness joint pain loss of appetite were the predominant complaints beginning in the young old ie in 6074years Diabetes Hypertension Upper GI system morbidities ophthalmic morbidities and Hearing impairment were very common in the old age group 7589yearsConclusion The young old elderly suffered from constitutional symptoms and the old elderly suffered from noncommunicable diseasesKeywords Morbidity profile Determinants Elderly Rural area
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Sachin V. Desai, Kshitij Arora, Ashok S. Dorle, Manjula R
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