The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

The physical, the mental and the social well-being constitute the health of an individual and a population in general … from chronic diseases and impairments. In this context, the prevailing health scenario is best measured in terms of the … disease free life expectancies and the disability free life expectancies. At the individual level, the number of diseases and …

socioeconomic, cultural, demographic and life style factors are associated with selected health problems among the older adults. The … selected chronic diseases are chronic cough, diabetes, heart disease, urinary problems, hypertension, problem in joints and … has been found that the factors associated with the likelihood of having a health problem are dependent on the type of the …

This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with … Sample Survey (NSS) (2004) has been used for the purpose. Diseases and disabilities are two aspects of the health of OAs … model these aspects of health. The association between these two aspects is not found to be strong in all the four …