Older Population

Given the tend of population aging in the country, the older population faces a number of problems and adjusts to them in varying degrees. These problems range from absence of ensured and sufficient income to support themselves and their dependents to ill health, absence of social security, loss of social role and recogination and to the non-availablity of opportunities for creative use of free time. The needs and problems of the elderly vary significantly according to their age, socio- economic status, health,living status and other such background charcterstics.As people live longer and into much advanced age (say75 years and over),they need more intensive and long term care, which in turn may in crease financial stress in the family.