Vol. 11, Special Issue 2 (2022)

Author(s):
Amita Mor, Jatesh Kathpalia, Vinod Kumari, Ashok Godara, Dalip Kumar Bishnoi and Sangeeta C Sandhu

Abstract:
A study was conduced in rural and urban areas of Hisar and Nuh districts among 256 elderly women on health problems. The results revealed that elderly women responded maximum for the diabetes as major health problem which occur most of the time (45.31%), followed by forgetfulness (39.84%) and asthma (38.28%). The elderly women from the rural areas were of the view that the major health problem among them was asthma which occur most of the time (38.28%), followed by forgetfulness (37.50%), respiratory disease (36.72%) and diabetes (35.94%). Over all among the elderly women the three most occurring diseases were diabetes (40.60%), forgetfulness (38.70%) and asthma (38.30%). Factors associated with health problems significantly associated.