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Comparative Study
| Published: December 25, 2016
Healthcare Support among Elderly Population
M.phil Scholar, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School for Home Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Lucknow, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor and Dean, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School for Home Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Lucknow, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.037/20160401
DOI: 10.25215/0401.037
ABSTRACT
The elderly population is large in general and growing due to advancement of health care education. These people are faced with numerous physical, psychological and social role changes that challenge their sense of self and capacity to live happily. The present study was conducted to assess the relationship of specific satisfaction in biogerontology and social gerontological and medical gerontology. The present study reveals that health supports is positively and highly significantly related to using care services and suffer from disease of aged persons. The main purpose of this research was to find out the mean difference between old age home and residing in their home in suffer from disease and using care services .The total 120 elderly (60 elderly in old age home and 60 residing in their home) of age range 60-80 year. The study was carried out in Lucknow. Multistage sampling technique was fallowed in the present study. The samples of this study were personally and individually contacted and data was obtained through face to face interview. The research tool for hospital anxiety and used the care services and health care scale was used .and the test was applied to check the difference of suffer from disease Asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stomach /bowel disease and using care services the ANOVA method used to check the difference .Result reveals that significant difference in suffer from disease and using care services–old age with respect to both old age with respect to both old age home and residing in their home .While the difference between suffer from disease and using care services reveals and the elderly people who live in old age home suffer from disease and using care services and residing in their home elderly people live with family and happy and significant difference were found in disease and using care services in old age.
Keywords
Health support, Suffer from disease, old age, elderly people live in old age home, elderly people live in residing in their home
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016, K Yadav, S Mishra
Received: October 09, 2016; Revision Received: November 14, 2016; Accepted: December 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.037/20160401
10.25215/0401.037
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 1, October-December, 2016