QUALITY OF LIFE AND RESILIENCE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED SENIOR CITIZENS

J.Jerus Albert Britto; Sharon John; Dr. B.Selvaraj

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

QUALITY OF LIFE AND RESILIENCE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED SENIOR CITIZENS

J. Jerus Albert Britto, Sharon John, Dr. B. Selvaraj

Abstract :

The very concept of an old age home is new to India. An old age home is usually the place, a home for the old people who have no one to look after them or those who have been thrown out of their homes by their children. The place is of course like home where the inmates get all the facility for their routine living like food clothing and shelter (Owen,2000).. The major scope of the study was to carried out to investigate the quality of life and resilience of institutionalised women inmates because of the rapid growth in the institutions. The tools used to were personal data sheet was used to collect the relevant data and background details of the selected samples like their gender, marital status, qualification , and social background, Quality of life scale was used to assess the level of quality of life of the sample, The scale consist of 29 statements which have responded with rating scale method, the level of resilience of the sample was measured using resilience scale, the scale consist of 14 statements which have positive and negative items and interpreted as low, average and high. Percentage analysis, Correlation and t test were used to analyze the results.