Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

AGEING: LIFE BEYOND HOME AND FAMILY

Dr Minni K T Harikumar

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Old age is characterised by physical debility which leads to gradual loss of eyesight, heå power, appetite and digestion accompanied with chronic illness and pain all of which requires specific attention and care. The analysis shows that the demographic transition in India which is also in the threshold of an economic makeover has given rise to a change in the social and cultural milieu of the society. Today economy plays a principal role and is a motivating factor for life, thus leading to individualism, materialism, intergenerational conflicts, and disintegration of the joint family system, economic independence of women and migration of children to other countries for better prospects. Thus it has drastically changed the attitude of society and the family towards the aged. The study shows that most of the people in an old age home are unable to accept and adjust to the realities of abandonment, powerlessness and loneliness.

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AGEING: LIFE BEYOND HOME AND FAMILY, Dr Minni K T Harikumar GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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