Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The current research paper highlights various issues of the elderly after moving to the Old Age Home. This attempt to coverup the condition, adjustment, changed life style and perspective in association of such several issues of the eldelry, which have essential effect on well-being of the elderly. METHODS: This study is based on primary data with 500 aged respondents interviewed from the 22 old age homes of Pune city of Maharashtra State, India. Mult-stage Random Sampling is adopted for the data collection process, which consists of Stratified random sampling, probability proportional to size (PPS) and Simple random sampling. RESULTS: Around five percent of the elderly are staying with their spouse in the old age home, and then 10 percent and 71 percent of elderly are staying away from their spouse and children respectively. In case of seven elderly persons out of ten, their close ones consulted to the institution before joining. The presence of lonely feeling is shared by 55 percent of the inmates, the result of left out by their children and other relatives. DISCUSSION: Family members dont have time, too busy to look after, or to interact with aged parents, and the consequences are - feeling of unimportant and conflicts within family members due to presence of aged person. This explanation is provided by more than 70 percent of the elderly for being at the old age home. The children and relatives are ready to pay to the old age institution but not ready to share one roof with them.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-304,
title = {Unwanted Parents - A Perspective of Elderly from Old Age Homes of Pune City in India},
author = {Priyanka V. Janbandhu and Dhananjay W. Bansod},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: The current research paper highlights various issues of the elderly after moving to the Old Age Home. This attempt to coverup the condition, adjustment, changed life style and perspective in association of such several issues of the eldelry, which have essential effect on well-being of the elderly. METHODS: This study is based on primary data with 500 aged respondents interviewed from the 22 old age homes of Pune city of Maharashtra State, India. Mult-stage Random Sampling is adopted for the data collection process, which consists of Stratified random sampling, probability proportional to size (PPS) and Simple random sampling. RESULTS: Around five percent of the elderly are staying with their spouse in the old age home, and then 10 percent and 71 percent of elderly are staying away from their spouse and children respectively. In case of seven elderly persons out of ten, their close ones consulted to the institution before joining. The presence of lonely feeling is shared by 55 percent of the inmates, the result of left out by their children and other relatives. DISCUSSION: Family members dont have time, too busy to look after, or to interact with aged parents, and the consequences are - feeling of unimportant and conflicts within family members due to presence of aged person. This explanation is provided by more than 70 percent of the elderly for being at the old age home. The children and relatives are ready to pay to the old age institution but not ready to share one roof with them.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai},
keywords = {Elderly, India, Old age homes, Reasons for Joining},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}