Volume : II, Issue : X, October - 2013

A Study on the Care of Elderly Women by Their Families in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh

D. Kodanda Rami Reddy

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In a human life span elderly is very sensitive life journey like childhood and when the people become more aged then the sensitivity improves where they required so much of special care and support.Generally elderly is an age where there are changes in their physical and psychological health which includes decrease of Memory function and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), bones and joints pain, declining visual and auditory function, problems in digestive and metabolic function, Dental problems, Skin diseases and problems in performing regular functions. Apart from the common changes loss of spouse, decreasing social contacts, loss of friends and many socio–economic and psychological factors will affect the wellbeing of old age people. In India due to the so much age gap between married women and men in past decades, old age women losses their spouse early compared to old age men. Many studies highlighted the same that the elderly widow women ratio is very high in India. One side the problems of the old age and another side disappearance of joint family system, moral values, human values many social causes are forcefully sending the old age people in more vulnerable situations. The care provided by the children, grand children, in–laws and other relatives will leads to the happy life of the old age people at their last stage of lives. The present study is to understand the care and support providing to the elderly women by their family members in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh

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D. Kodanda Rami Reddy / A Study on the Care of Elderly Women by Their Families in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh / International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.2, Issue.10 October 2013

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