EVALUATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS AMONG ELDERLY AT RURAL AREA IN INDORE DISTRICT, INDIA

INTRODUCTION: Elderly are the senior citizens of the nation leading their lives in a transitional phase. The mortality rate in India has come down due to an increase in the life expectancy, which ultimately leads to the increase in elderly population. This has led to the growing number of the aged. OBJECTIVE: To study the demographic profile and socio status of the elderly people in rural area & know the psycho-social and various health problems faced by the rural elderly MATERIAL & METHOD: A cross sectional study conducted over a period of six month, by using simple random sampling technique, with sample size of 340. RESULT: major fraction of the population belongs to age group of 60-69 years old; that is 70.0%. A majority of the respondents were Hindus that is 89.7%. All the respondents had a chronic health problems, the most common being hypertension that is 35.5% coming next as a Osteoarthritis that is 26.1%. 91.4% of the respondents felt that old age had affected their day-to-day life, out of which 32.4% claims to be in all manner