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Spirituality and Well-Being of Ageing


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Increased life expectancy and the prospect of longevity lead to indication on an importance of spirituality while aging. This article aims to study and analyze the concepts related to older people linked with spirituality and how this concept affects their quality of life leads to healthier life. Spirituality supports healthy and productive relationships with various aspects of life, like mental and physical security as well as social security and life enjoy menton the full quality of life among elderly. Spiritual viewpoint has become a very important aspect among the elderly citizens because of physical illness, disability, loss of loved ones, loneliness, depression, anxiety and mortality during old age. Importance of spirituality and aging has increased due to physical and emotional as well as social well-being.

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Spirituality, Well-Being, Ageing, Quality of Life, Older People.
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Authors

Arti Kumari
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I.C. Collage of Home Science, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana, India
Sheela Sangwan
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I.C. Collage of Home Science, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana, India

Abstract


Increased life expectancy and the prospect of longevity lead to indication on an importance of spirituality while aging. This article aims to study and analyze the concepts related to older people linked with spirituality and how this concept affects their quality of life leads to healthier life. Spirituality supports healthy and productive relationships with various aspects of life, like mental and physical security as well as social security and life enjoy menton the full quality of life among elderly. Spiritual viewpoint has become a very important aspect among the elderly citizens because of physical illness, disability, loss of loved ones, loneliness, depression, anxiety and mortality during old age. Importance of spirituality and aging has increased due to physical and emotional as well as social well-being.

Keywords


Spirituality, Well-Being, Ageing, Quality of Life, Older People.

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