Challenges of elderly people in Bangladesh

Abstract

This study has been conducted in Rupasdi union of Bancharampur upazilla. Case study and sample survey have been applied for collecting data. Total respondents were eighty. Sixty percent of them were male and rests of them were female. They have different socio–economic condition but all are aged over sixty years. The main objectives of this study were to know about the demographic characteristics of the older person, the socio-economic problems, identify the health problem, psycho social problem and people needs & recommend for formulating policy in favor of their welfare. Elderly people face many challenges in their daily life. All of the respondents have their children but most of them do not take responsibility of their parents. They even rarely communicate with their parents and do not support them financially or other ways. So that elderly parents are in a depression situation particularly for bad health and economic condition. Most of them have been suffering from various illnesses which hamper their active ageing. In some cases they hardly manage to take medical care for the lack of financial support and also for the negligence of their care givers. So far been merely supported by their adult children they spend their life with loneliness and depression. So most of them are being neglected from the support and care of their near and dear one.