Rural Elderly in India: Perspectives and Issues

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This book is an outcome of the cross-sectional and empirical study carried out among about 1200 elderly persons belonging to four Community Development Blocks of a highly industrialized district (Combination) in Tamil Nadu. The major focus of this research work is on diverse issue related to rural elderly socio-economic differentials among men and women, living arrangements, socio-familial interactions as well as intergenerational contacts of the elderly, in addition to their health status, disabilities and utilization of health care services. The analysis is not just restricted to frequency and cross-tabulations with suitable tests of signification, but also made use of advanced multivariable statistical techniques like binary logistic regression as well as multinomial logistic regression techniques. The finding would be immensely useful for formulating strategies for the well-being of the elderly at personal level as well as at family/community.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR N Audinarayana

Dr. N. Audinarayana (b. 1955) is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Population Studies, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. After completing his M.A., (Population Studies) with first class from S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, he joined in the same department and further completed M. Phil. and Ph.D., in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He has contributed about a dozen papers/articles for professional journals and is also co-author of two reports viz. (i) Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Age at Marriage in India and (ii) Demographic Consequences of a Development Project: A Study of Girna Irrigation Project, Maharashtra State, India. He is also a member of IASP, AFDFS and IUSSP.