A study on assesement of life satisfaction of aged elderly living with family

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Shabnam Ansari (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Punjab)
Tejpreet Kaur Kang (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Punjab)

The present study was conducted in Kanpur city, of Uttar Pradesh State. The purpose of the study was to assess the level of life satisfaction among aged elderly. Four wards were selected randomly for the study. The subjects comprised of aged elderly belonging to middle income group who resided within the municipal limits of the city. The sample comprised of 150 families (150 male and their150female spouses). Life satisfaction Scale (Ansari and Dhakar, 2014) was administered to each aged to assess the level of life satisfaction. Majority of aged men and women had low satisfaction with respect to their personal status, health status, financial status, routine activities, familial relationship and social relationship. Maximum of aged men had low level of life satisfaction on personal achievement while majority of aged women were found in category of moderate level of life satisfaction.