IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review

Rupal Hooda ¹, Sachin Chawla ², Sudesh Gandhi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family Resource Management, COHS, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana ., IN
2 School of Health Sciences, OSGU, Hisar, Haryana ., IN

Abstract

Ageing adversely affects the fine motor skills and activities associated with writing, sewing, and typing etc. For older people it is more challenging to grasp, push or pull anything. A study was conducted on the elderly people of Hisar city to access the socio-economical status, features and fixtures of elderly houses. From different localities of the city, 100 elderly respondents were selected each from living without families. More than half of the elderly’s house (58.0%) had simple wooden doors and also, it was reported that D-handle (60.0%) with simple door lock (68.0%) were used in maximum of the elderly’s house.

Keywords

ageing, features, fixtures, Hisar

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Rupal Hooda ¹, Sudesh Gandhi ¹, Manju Mehta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family Resource Management, COHS, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Aging is a vital process that makes individual life, family structure and society different. Domestic accidents that old people might be exposed to could be prevented by family directions and physical changes in the space of a home. Astudy was conducted on 100 elderly of Hisar city to report the major accidents faced by them. Results revealed that almost all the respondents (99.0%) belonged to the general caste except one percent from schedule caste. 73.0 percent of elderly were living in two-story house whereas 27.0 percent elderly were living in single storey house. Most of the elderly people i.e. 45.0 percent of them had choking accident while eating or drinking followed by 43.0 percent who had cuts from knife while grating the vegetables.

Keywords

accident, elderly, ageing, Hisar

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