Open AccessPERCEIVED AGEING AND ELDERS HEALTH
Author(s) -
Aftab Ahmed,
Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry,
Haris Farooq
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.05.1270
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , medicine , ignorance , gerontology , social isolation , depression (economics) , everyday life , disease , isolation (microbiology) , institution , psychology , psychiatry , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , communication , epistemology , pathology , biology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Culture and society always an important factor that contributed to build thestereo types rather positive and negative that affect our everyday life. As with other social issuesageing is also effected the cultural and societal stereo types. Concept of old age was not theonly creation of old age rather it was started when they were young and strong concepts weredeveloped and concreted with the passage of time as he get older and older. Objective: (1) Toexplore what Older Persons (OPs) perceived about old age. (2) To find the cross relationshipbetween their concept of old age and their disease status. Methodology: Statistically calculatedsample of 384 OPs were randomly interviewed by taking their verbal consent after introducingthem about objective of study. Structured questionnaire was developed for data collectionpurposes. Data was entered and analyzed in SPSS. Results: among 384 respondents 31.3%perceived old age as illness and disease, 15.9% consider it stress and depression, 25.5% wereof the view that old age is phase of social isolation and ignorance, increased dependencywas also recorded 9.1% and less social participation as 11.7%. Hypertension was reportedby 8.1% of the study respondents, Heart problem in 12.8% cases and Diabetes in 15.1%cases. Conclusion: Awareness of religious education along with role of social institution playsthe leading role to reduce the intensity of negative stereo types and helps elders to developpositive concepts about their last age will be supplementary measure for active, and healthyand prosperous old age.