Leena Rahul Salunkhe1
INTRODUCTION: Aging refers to normal, progressive and irreversible biological changes that occur over an individual’s life span. The advancement of medical science and increased awareness among the people has brought about a sharp decline in mortality and a steady decline in fertility. This has resulted in a worldwide shift in the demographic profile and has led to significant increase in the aged population. About two thirds of all older people are concentrated in the developing world.
OBJECTIVES: to study & compare socio-demographic variables of old age people living in Urban & Urban slum areas.
MATERIAL & METHODS: all the old age people living in urban slum area & randomly selected one urban area of Karad town were interviewed by using pre structured proforma about socio-demographic variable & compared with each other.
OBSERVATIONS: Total 153 from urban & 135 from urban slum were enrolled for the study. Nearly 2/3rd subjects were above age 65yrs in both areas with more female proportions in slum area than urban area. Significant difference was found with education, occupation & socio-economic status in both areas.
CONCLUSION: Ageing is a universal phenomenon, with advanced fertility control, improvement in health and social services life expectancy has increased. Ageing has profound effect on the individual status in the family, the work force, goals and organization of health, social services, policies and practices of the government.
