Socio–Economic and Demographic Status of the Elderly People Living in Pumdi Bhumdi VDC, Kaski
| dc.contributor.author | Baral, Dipendra Raj | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-22T09:40:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-22T09:40:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study entitled “ Socio–Economic and Demographic Status of the Elderly People Living in Pumdi Bhumdi VDC, Kaski” is based on 117 sampled of elderly people of that place. The main objective of this study is to identify the socio–economic, demographic and other problem faced by the elderly people in that place. Ageing refers to theincreasing inability of the body to maintain itself and to perform the functions it oncedid. With increasing life expectancy, both developed and developing countries have experience of ageing population. But in fact the situation of elderly people is different in terms of socio–economic and demographic context. The status of elderly people is different in terms of place of residence, education, occupation and socio – cultural periphery and even in both conflict affected area and not affected area. Elderly peopleare bound to remain below poverty line, unpaid economic activities and act ‘role less’role. Elderly speared a lot of time and economy to their offspring in their adulthood, butat last they obtain various kinds of disgusting behavior from their offspring. In this regard, this dissertation tries to analyze the socio–economic and demographic status of the elderly people of the study area. This study has revealed the socio–economic status of the elderly people living in Pumdi Bhumdi VDC of Kaski district. Economic dependency and physical weakness appear aslong term problem for elderly people. Elderly people who have better economic status are more cared by their family than who have worst economic status. Economic status of elderly people showed that huge proportion of elderly people in the study area had poor socio – economic and demographic situation. Elderly people with low income and poverty depends on their offspring and their relative even in their daily needs and it increased the responsibilities for the young. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/12535 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Population Studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Socio–Economic | en_US |
| dc.subject | Demographic Status | en_US |
| dc.title | Socio–Economic and Demographic Status of the Elderly People Living in Pumdi Bhumdi VDC, Kaski | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of Population Studies | en_US |
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