%0 Journal Article
%T Social and Health Status of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Nepal
%A Hom Nath Chalise
%A Edwin Rosenberg
%J Advances in Aging Research
%P 63-74
%@ 2169-0502
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/aar.2019.84005
%X span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Background:</span></b></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> Most developing countries are ageing at unprecedented rates, yet they
are relatively under-studied regarding the demographic and health status of the
older population. This in turn inhibits appropriate, positive so</span><span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">cietal responses. This study presents the
socio-demographic and health status of older adults in Nepal. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Methods:</span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> This study is a secondary analysis of structured interview data collected by
the Central Department of Population Studies at Tribhuvan University (TU)</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">via a cross-sectional survey of community-dwelling
persons age 60+ in the Pharping area of Kathmandu.</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">For this study, there were 1326</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">valid responses.</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Results:</span></b></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Respondents¡¯ mean age was 69.92 years (sd = 7.82).
The majority (70%) was illiterate. Nearly 3/5 of women were widowed</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">(58.4%), </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">which </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">nearly
%K Ageing
%K Health
%K Gender
%K Nepal
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=94952