A Study to Assess the Awareness Regarding Older Abuse Among Old Age People in Selected Areas of Pune City.

Abstract

Older abuse is nothing but the physical harm including pressure marks burns, cuts and the emotional, financial harm to the old age people that dependent upon the family. It is important to took the surveys to identify the victims take the proper attention to the people who was suffered from any type of older abuse. older abuse is a issue that can injured an older person physically, sexually, psychologically, emotionally, financially, being struck, kicked, slapped, burned. the respect that society has for geriatric people frequently keeps victim from speaking up, which exacerbates their pain and loneliness. It is imperative to increase awareness about older abuse.

Aim of the study: Awareness regarding older abuse among old age people.

Material and method: The research design adopted for the study was non experimental descriptive study. Sample size was 100 older people, sample is above 58 yrs. Non-purposive sampling technique was used for the study. Demographic variables such as Age, gender, education, occupation, residential area, monthly family income awareness score such as good average poor were assessed their awareness  on older abuse . The association of the demographic variables with the knowledge score was considered significant at 0.05 level and below.

Results: The level of awareness regarding older abuse among old age people, 69% were having average awareness, 25% were having poor awareness and 6% were having good awareness abuse.

Conclusion: Nursing research can be contribute to a deeper understanding of the risk factors associated with older abuse, including caregiver stress, social isolation, and dependency issues. Research can evaluate the effectiveness of various initiatives, and policy changes. The result of this study show  that the old age people having poor aware on the older abuse which is age group above 58years .