Abstract

"The aim of the study is to find out quality of life of elderly people above 60 years in the non-institutional elderly care with reference to day care centre by ARUWE, Ayanavaram at Chennai. The study was conducted on a purposive random sample of 30 elderly attending Day care services. WHO-QoL-BRIEF version was used to measure the QoL. The interview schedule was administered; data was collected and was subjected to statistical analysis using Karl Pearson Correlation, Anova and Students-t-test. The results envisages that 63.3% of them have low quality of life where as 36.7% have high of quality of life, 46.7% have low health satisfaction where as 53.3% has high health satisfaction, 66.7% have low physical score where as 33.3% has high in physical score,76.7% has low psychological score where as 23.3% high psychological scores. 63.3% has low social relationships scores where as 36.7% has high social relationship. 60% has low score in environmental domain where as 40% has high score in environmental domain. "

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