Socio-Demographic Setup of the Rural Oldest Old: An Anthropological Assessment
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
In the year 2011, the Election Commission of India has started to publish separate voter list who belonging to 80 years and above age. However, Department of Finance, Government of India categorized as ‘Super Senior Citizen’ for the purpose of income tax assessment. The term “Oldest Old” was coined in 1984 in a session at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to refer to the population aged 85 and older. In India most of the gerontological studies considered the ‘elderly’ (aged 60 years and above) as a single age category and therefore, did not deal with the problems of oldest old population separately despite the fact that the octogenarian, nonagenarian and centenarians sub-population were very much in existence in the demographic scenario of India from the remote past. Therefore, the present study aims to highlight socio-demographic milieu as well as the social status of the rural oldest-old people of Paschim Midnapore district, West Bengal, India, that’s why the researcher focused on age group, sex, caste and community, marital status, living arrangement, educational attainment, and family types, house hold size which significantly associated with the social status. Therefore, as an introductory ventures the researcher is an attempt to focus a micro-level study (Micro refers to small-scale or small group interactions) on the socio-demographic profile of the rural oldest old population in the arena of social gerontological study in India. Keywords: Oldest-old, AAAS, Super Senior Citizen, Socio-demographic milieu, micro-level study.
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Parikshit Chakraborty, Falguni Chakrabarty
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