Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Chandrakala Singh ¹, Santosh Sangwan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies, COHS, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study was carried out in Hisar district o f Haryana state with an objective to assess the depression among senior citizen. A total o f 100 elderly equally representing both living arrangements i.e. living alone and living with family, were selected randomly for the present study. Depression o f senior citizen was taken as dependent variable, whereas, level o f physical dependency, personal and socio-economic variables were considered as independent variables. Results related to the dependency status indicated that the marginal percentage o f elderly were totally dependent in both living arrangements. Further maximum percentage o f elderly living in family were dependent for heavy work as compare to the respondent living without family where, maximum percentage of respondent were independent. Data highlighted that higher percentage o f respondent living with family had mild level o f health, whereas, respondent living without family had different trend showing fifty percent had moderate level o f health status. Female respondents were having higher depression as compared to male counterpart.. Elderly who were living alone were having higher level o f depression as compared to elderly who were living with their family.

Keywords

Living Arrangement, Elderly, Depression.

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Priyanka Beniwal ¹, Chandrakala Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies COHS, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar Haryana, IN

Abstract

Aging is a series of processes that begin with life and continue throughout the life cycle. It represents the closing period in the life span, a time when the individual looks back on life, lives on past accomplishments and begins to finish off his life course. It represents the accumulation of changes in person over time. The study aims to investigate the health status of senior citizens. The present study was carried out in Hisar and Sirsa district of Haryana state. A total of 400 elderly equally representing both males and females of age group 65-70 years were selected randomly for the study. Modified inventory developed by Khan and Lal (2011) was used to assess health status of senior citizens. The results of the study elucidated that health status of senior citizens depicted that 54.25 per cent of the total respondents had average health status followed by good (25.25%) and poor health status (20.50%). The most common health problems reported by the senior citizens were joint pains, back pains, blood pressure, and chest pain etc. Gender wise comparison of total sample further pointed out that females were poor in their health against males.

Keywords

Aging, Health Problems, Blood Pressure, Joint Pains.

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