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AGED CARE AND CITY BEAUTIFUL: A STUDY OF SELECT OAHS IN CHANDIGARH.
Today, India is home to one out of every ten senior citizens of the world. Old age is not the phenomenon of modern times; it existed in all ages and in all parts of the world. The problem has become acute because of urbanization, stress on material comforts, change in family values and a number of o...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Ageing and society: The Indian journal of gerontology
2013
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/007022.pdf |
| Summary: | Today, India is home to one out of every ten senior citizens of the world. Old age is not the phenomenon of modern times; it existed in all ages and in all parts of the world. The problem has become acute because of urbanization, stress on material comforts, change in family values and a number of other factors leading to nuclear families where personal comforts take precedence of everything else. Three factors have been important in declining mortality which has lead to increased old population. They are income growth, improvement in medical technology and public health Programme. Indian aged population is currently the second largest in the world. |
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| Physical Description: | Vol. XXIII No. III & IV, July - Sept., Oct. - Dec., 2013 |