SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURES AND LIFESTYLE BEHAVIOUR OF ELDERS
Keywords:
geing, Health, Social Security, lifestyle, common health conditions, India.Abstract
- Background
Every person – in every country in the world – should have the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Yet, the environments in which we live can favor health or be harmful to it. Environments are highly influential on our behavior and our exposure to health risks, our access to services like health and social care and the opportunities that ageing brings. Old age has many positive and negative aspects associated with it. Often the realities, perceptions and expectations vary a lot and become a source of distress. It is important to evaluate the concerns and reflect on the possible solutions.
- Objectives
- To study the various age-related issues influencing the lifestyles of older people.
- To understand the social security measures for elders in urban settings.
- Method
The qualitative study was taken up to know the social security measures for elder people and to study the lifestyle of the older adults for their well-being.
- Inference: There are many social concerns raised by the older adults and they are needed to be addressed. Awareness, provision of information on how to approach the concerned authority for utilizing the scheme and ease of administrative procedures should be the important part of providing social security measures for older people. These require multi-level and multidisciplinary levels of checks to deal with and help the elderly to lead a healthy lifestyle with long term social security.
