A Study of Elderly Living in Old Age Home and Within Family Set-up in Jammu

Dubey, Aruna; Bhasin, Seema; Gupta, Neelima; Sharma, Neeraj

doi:10.1080/09737189.2011.11885333

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“…Based on Dubey et al 27% of the elderly in India were neglected (18). Mattoo found that the most impor- tant factors in the elderly who experienced negligence included emotional factors, violence because of the generation gap, economic dependency, isolation, unemployment, caregivers stress, family overcrowding, dementia, and physical disorders (19).…”

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Elder Abuse in Shiraz, Iran

Kashfi

Asadi

Tabatabaee

et al. 2017

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Aging is an inevitable biological phenomenon. Today, the elderly have a more active life, better life expectancy, and health status than in the past in Iran. However, there are still a lot of related hidden problems such as the elderly abuse. Objectives: The current study aimed at determining different types of the elder abuse in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: The current cross sectional study was conducted in 2012. The study population included the elderly in Shiraz, Iran. A sample of 226 elderly was randomly selected from 7 urban health centers. Data were collected using domestic elder abuse questionnaire. Data were analyzed by performing descriptive statistics (mean, frequency percentage, and standard deviation), the Pearson correlation, and the Mann-Whitney test by SPSS.

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Elder Abuse in Shiraz, Iran

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Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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“…In addition, urbanization and industrialization have lead to the changes in economic structure, diminishing the social values and weakening the importance of joint family (Asadullah et al, 2012). Consequently, the older generation is caught between the decline in traditional values and absence to adequate social security (Dubey et al, 2011). The rapid increase of elderly population is challenging and creating a serious impact on the health status and Quality of Life (QoL).…”

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A Study on Quality of Life of Elderly Population in Bangladesh

Khan¹

2014

AJHR

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Bangladesh currently experiences the significant increase of aging population with poverty and breakdown of various social and traditional bonds. So, this study was undertaken to assess the background profile, pattern of morbidity and overall quality of life (QoL) of elderly population in Bangladesh. Data were collected from 250 elderly populations (male=168, female=82) aged 60 and over from three villages of Pabna district, Bangladesh through a pre-structured questionnaire. In each domain of the World Health Organization (WHO) WHOQoL-BREF, descriptive statistical analysis was presented and the internal consistency was measured by Cronbach alpha. Finally, to compare the mean domains score of QoL, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test were used. The results revealed that most common health complications are insomnia and eye problems. The highest QoL score was found (52.87±18.74) in social relationship domain and least score was found (48.65±16.39) in environmental domain. Elderly males are shown the higher mean domains score in all domains except overall QoL whereas elderly females are shown the higher mean score in overall QoL domain. Again, elderly who are presently workless and live in the joint family have the better mean score in physical and environmental domain respectively. To develop the QoL of the elderly, emphasis should be given to improve their financial condition and traditional family bond.

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“…Urbanization, modernization, industrialization and globalization has brought major changes resulting the vulnerable group to shift them from their own family to some OAHs and other institutions. 4 During prevailing joint family system in India, the old age had no problem, later after the disintegration of the joint family system the impact of economic change became a peculiar problem that old age people are facing currently in this country. 4 WHO defines "Quality of life as an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns".…”

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“…4 During prevailing joint family system in India, the old age had no problem, later after the disintegration of the joint family system the impact of economic change became a peculiar problem that old age people are facing currently in this country. 4 WHO defines "Quality of life as an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns". 5 It is a broad ranging concept affected in a complex way by the person's physical health, psychological state, personal beliefs, social relationships and relationship to the salient features of their environment.…”

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Quality of life among elderly living in old age homes and in family of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India

Thresa

Indumathi

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Quality of life in elderly is more relevant towards an ageing society. In India, the awareness is very little about the special needs of the elderly and their care takers (physical and mental health, psychological and social support). Furthermore, among elderly there is a variation between those living in old age homes (OAHs) and those living in general population. Hence the present study was undertaken to assess and compare the quality of life of elderly living in OAHs and community.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among elderly in old age homes and family set up of Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. QOL of elderly was assessed using WHO QOL - brief questionnaire after taking informed consent from the participants. Data was analyzed using SPSS 23.Results: A total of 106 elders from each group old age home and family setup were the study participants. Quality of life was good 72.5% in family and in OAHs it was only 56.2%. The main reason for residing in OAHs was no family, lack of care takers. All the four domains were found to be highly statistically significant.Conclusions: From this study we are able to find out that quality of life in family setup is better than OAHs, psychologically many people were depressed as they live separately from their family and relatives, friends and the community they lived.

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A Study of Elderly Living in Old Age Home and Within Family Set-up in Jammu

Cited by 47 publications

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Elder Abuse in Shiraz, Iran

Elder Abuse in Shiraz, Iran

A Study on Quality of Life of Elderly Population in Bangladesh

Quality of life among elderly living in old age homes and in family of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India

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