ISBN: 9789350500170    Publisher: B.R.Publishing Corporation Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 293        Language: English

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 (Coimbatore) in Tamil Nadu. The major focus of this research work is on diverse issues related to rural elderly' socioeconomic differentials among men and women, living arrangements, socio-familial interactions as well as inter-generational contacts of the elderly, in addition to their health status, disabilities and utilization of heath care services. The analysis is not just restricted to frequency and cross-tabulations with suitable tests of significance, but also made use of advanced multivariate statistical techniques like binary logistic regression.
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