The Psychosocial Issues and Utilization of Geriatric Welfare Services among Elderly in Field Practice Area of RHC, Tadikonda, Guntur, A.P
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 8
Abstract
Context: “Greying of nations” is the most remarkable phenomenon in 20th century.Govt.of India adopted National policy on older persons in January 1999.The policy defines senior citizen or elderly as a perso who is of age 60 years or above. Objective : To study the psychosocial problems and geriatric welfare services Material and methods: It was a community based cross-sectional study of Geriatric population conducted in RHC.Sample size required was 390,sampling technique was simple random method Results : Mean age of the study population was 67.07.males 54%,females 46% and belonged to OC (51%) community. 66% married persons living with their spouse Most of them were economically independent(58.5%) and were happy(72.4%) towards life. Most of them were being looked after by family(69.2%)Awareness and utilization of welfare services were <1/3(33%) except old age pension which had more than 90% awareness and 47.4% utilization
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Dr. B. Sreedevi, Dr. chinnamma
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