Challenges of elderly caregiving

Pages: 774-776
Sushree Rekha Mohanty (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Womens Degree College, Saileshree Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha)

This paper deals with the different challenges and choices regarding the quality of care of the elders in present situation. With increasing pace of modernization ,urbanization, migration and other factors detrimental to the care of the elderly by their adult children and elder care is going to be problematic in the coming decades. Therefore all the more relevant factors that influence quality care , need to be manipulated to promote better quality of caregiving. Knowledge about good caregiving would enable us to intervene and promote those factors that are critical to quality care giving.