Keshu Lal Damor, Lokesh Kumar Sonkaria, Suresh Kewalramani, Japneet Sidhu, Sohan Lal

A STUDY TO ASSESS QUALITY OF LIFE OF ELDERLY RESIDING IN FIELD PRACTICE AREA OF URBAN HEALTH TRAINING CENTER OF SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE JAIPUR

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Materials Science
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Background: In India, as per the “National Policy on Older People” a senior citizen is dened as a person who is 60 years old or above. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 dened Quality of Life as: “The individual's perception of his or her position in life, with in the cultural context and value system he or she lives in, and in relation to his or her goals, expectations parameters and social relations”. As per the WHO report (2013), there are more than 600 million elderlies at a global level. The elderly population will be doubled by 2025 and rise to two billion by 2050. According to the 2001 census, India was home to more than 77 million people aged 60 years and over. One of the greatest tasks of public health is to improve the Quality of Life (QOL) of geriatric population through which we can increase the life expectancy of the elderly by every year. Aim and Objectives: To know the quality of life of the elderly and its inuencing socio-demographic factors living in urban eld practice area, Jaipur city with objectives like assess and compare the quality of life and sociodemographic factors affecting quality of life of elderly Materials and Methods: Urban eld practice area is divided into 4 areas namely Katputli Nagar, Bais godown, Susheel Pura and Bhojpura covers a population of 15190. Of these, 25 elderlies from each area were systemic randomly selected and interviewed to complete the sample of 100 people. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire having two sections was used to collect the information where the rst part included information regarding sociodemographic prole and the second part comprised of a 26-point WHOQOL -BREF questionnaire. Results: A maximum proportion of the study subjects was male (65%) with age group of 60-69 years is 69% and ≥70 years is 31%. In regards to educational status 38% were illiterates, literacy is high in urban area with 62% participants were literate. Most of subjects belonged to middle class (45%), upper middle class (35%) of socioeconomic status (SES-III) and least in lower middle (4%) (Modied BG Prasad's classication). Perceived Quality of Life (QOL) were 46% good for elderly living in urban area. While in area subject only 13% perceive poor QOL and 33% perceived neither poor nor good QOL while only 52% has satised QOL. In urban area highest mean score present in psychological domain (66.18 ± 8.274) and lowest in environmental domain (60.65 ± 9.691) of QOL. Conclusions: Quality of life is a multidimensional concept. Education and nancial dependency were found to be the possible determinants of QOL. More extensive studies are recommended to identify other factors affecting QOL.

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