Unmet needs of elderly in a rural population of Wardha

Dr. Deepti Chandrakar; Dr. Manish A Prasad; Dr. Meenakshi Khapre; Dr. Abhay Mudey; Dr. Vasant Wagh; Dr. Smrutiranjan Nayak

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

Unmet needs of elderly in a rural population of Wardha

Dr. Deepti Chandrakar, Dr. Manish A Prasad, Dr. Meenakshi Khapre, Dr. Abhay Mudey, Dr. Vasant Wagh, Dr. Smrutiranjan Nayak

Abstract :

India is moving towards advanced phase technologically due to which there is increase in awareness of health care among the people that led to the improvement in the quality of health care facility and increase in quality of life. Therefore this cross–sectional study was conducted with the objective to find out various reasons for sadness in elderly people and their spending of leisure time. The study was conducted during December 2015 to January 2016 for 2 months duration in a rural area in Deoli Block in Wardha district. There were more male (61.70%) in our study than females (38.30%). Result shows that most (33.06%) males were sad due to poverty followed by loneliness (16.93%), financial constraints (16.12%), illness (8.87%) and felt neglected (8.06%). Among females most common reason for sadness was observed due to illness (27.27%), followed by neglected (15.58%) and equal reasons (1.29%) of poverty, loss of spouse, loneliness, children staying away and financial constraints were reported by them. Elderly male should be health educated about ill effects of addictions like tobacco chewing, smoking and alcohol. Most of the elderly patient felt sadness and common among them were poverty, illness, felt neglected and financial constraints.