Exploring the Intersection of Demographic Change and Healthcare Utilization: An Examination of Age-Specific Healthcare Needs and Service Provision

Abstract

Gerontology is the study of aging inclusive of many aspects such as social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological. Gerontology includes government planning; nursing homes and facilitates the homes or places for older people and examining the impacts of a aging population on society. The aging process entails abundant life changes; it can be positive and negative. The elderly develops varied coping skills and adapt successfully to these changes depend on their personal, social support, and environmental factors, accordingly, maintaining life satisfaction and joy in late life. Lately, the capacity of the family as essential parental figure to the aged has encountered change because of primary changes, above all to the nuclearization of the family. Accordingly, the incomplete shift of caring liability of aged people on the public authority/state as different social and economic security programs. Over the past century, life expectancy has increased dramatically, and the world will soon have more old people than children. Individuals continue to face challenges to their wellbeing and social security in the changes like social structure, physical environment, also their age-related decline and changes. In the context of Indian tradition joint family set up and structure, institutionalized living inevitably induces a perception of conformity, loneliness, and isolation. Even though, institutionalization living is fast becoming a rising trend amongst the elderly in India, due to elderly dependency upon many factors such as socioeconomic status, health condition as well as the unavailability of care and support in their own homes. In the present study efforts have been made to understand the psycho-social needs, psychological wellbeing, hope towards their life.