ABSTRACT

Background: An exceptional increase in the number and proportion of older adults in the country, rapid increase in nuclear families, and contemporary changes in psychosocial and physical matrix and values often compel this segment of society to live alone or in old age homes. The UN defines a country as ‘ageing’ when the proportion of people over 60 years reaches 7 percent of its population. India exceeded that rate of proportion with 7.8 percent in 2001 and India comes under the purview of the UN definition of an ‘ageing country’. The number of elderlies was 77 million in 2019 and is expected to cross 100 million in 2021. The elderly people have to be treated as a group requiring special care since the type; degree and magnitude of their problems are different from other age groups. Care of the aged has thus become a crucial part of health care professional, especially nursing professional working in the tertiary care as well as Indian health care delivery system. Aim: To assess physiological and psychosocial health issues of elderly People living with family in selected rural community areas of Vadodara. Material and methods: A Descriptive research design were carried out for this study. Total 500 samples were taken from selected rural areas of Vadodara for this study. The samples were selected using stratified random sampling technique. Demographic variable, physiological tool and psychosocial rating scale were used to gather data for this study. Descriptive and Inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage and chi- square test were implied for the analysis of data. Result: The obtained research data revealed that the top three common diseases occurred in the elderly were visual problem (55%), hypertension (40%) and hearing problem (34%) as well as diabetes mellitus (34%) simultaneously. While the psychosocial rating scale revealed that 99.8% of participants had mild issues while 0.2% had severe issues. While assessing the association, there were some statistically significant associations between the Physiological and psychosocial health issues of elderly people with selected demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance. Hence, we reject the null hypothesis. Conclusion: Descriptive & inferential statistics were used for data analysis. The statistical chi square test was used to find out the association between the physiological and psychosocial health issues with selected demographic variables. Tables and diagrams were used to represent the demographic characteristics, physiological and psychosocial health issues. The result of the analysis shows that the, elderly People living with family in selected rural community areas are suffering with physiological and psychosocial health issues and some of them are associated with the demographic variables too. Keywords: physiological issues, psychosocial issues, older adults, tertiary care
Publication date: 25/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.2011