Journal of Aging Science

Disabilities, SRHs and ADL Status of Oldest-old Population: A Study in Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal, India

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Parikshit Chakraborty

Research Investigator, Cultural Research Institute, Govt. of West Bengal, India.

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Aging Sci

Abstract:

The term ‘oldest old’ was coined in 1984 during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to denote elderly population above 80 years of age; in India, these elderly people categorized as ‘Super Senior Citizen’. Presently, India’s oldest-old population is world’s second largest and 21st century is witnessing a serious health concern emerging out of unprecedented population ageing. Disability can be defined identical physical inabilities and mental conditions. Sometime, disability may get up different types of health conditions. Here disabilities defined different physical inabilities such as vision problem, hearing problem, speaking problem, walking problem. Self-rated health status is one of the most important areas which concern with their perceived health condition. Self-rated health status based on the question proposed by WHO, 2002. ADL is one of the primary areas which concerns with functional disability and it’s assess with respect to eating, dressing, getting in and out of a bed or chair, using the toilet, bathing, and continence. The present paper intends to assess the Assessment on Physical Disabilities or Inabilities, Self-rated Health Status (SRHs) and ADL (Activities of Daily Living) status among 450 oldest-old respondents who were living in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India by using of pre-tested structured questionnaire schedule. The present study revealed that among the total number of respondents across both the genders majority were suffered from speaking problems and minimum respondents were suffered by walking/ locomotion problem. The study also exposed that the male under study were more active than female in terms of ability to doing work in daily life for which gender wise distribution of ADL status are significantly associated; whereas, the gender wise distribution of different types of physical inabilities were not significantly associated.

Biography :

Parikshit Chakraborty currently working as Research Investigator at Cultural Research Institute under Backward Classes Welfare Department Govt. of West Bengal and formerly he was Junior Research Fellow at Anthropological Survey of India under Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Government of India. He completed Ph.D. in Science (Anthropology) from Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. His research interest on ageing research especially on Oldest Old Population and he has also interest on Cock fight, Tribal Education and health, Weekly Market, Street Vendors, Socio-Cultural importance of Sacred Grove and ethnic religion. Dr. Chakraborty also served as Research Assistant at Cultural Research Institute and also served as UGC Major Research Project Fellow at department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University. He has published more than 30 papers in different reputed journals.