Traumatic Symptoms and Quality of Life of Older Persons

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R. Merthiga (Vinayaka Mission’s Medical College and Hospital Karaikal, Puducherry)

Traumatic symptoms among older persons are a very massive problem in society. The traumatic studies among older adults are significantly less in the research field. It is essential to understand and look after the trauma in the older adults. The main goal of this study is to analyse the traumatic symptoms among the older citizen of 60 and above and how the symptoms affect their Quality of life. This research paper was conducted on the older citizens residing in Tiruchirappalli district. The pattern of findings was obtained after controlling demographics, traumatic events, situations, and symptoms. This result has implications for understanding how the symptoms influence their Quality of life. Data was gathered from 60 older adults (aged 60) housed in Tiruchirappalli district. The traumatic symptoms and quality of life among older persons were measured using the self-structured (trauma checklist) and WHO Breff scale (quality of life scale) questionnaire over 30 females and 30 males in the Tiruchirappalli district. The result of the analysis revealed that the traumatic events happened in their life, but the traumatic symptoms did not affect their Quality of life because the majority of the traumatic symptoms happened a long day before for the respondents, so their Quality of life was not affected because of traumatic symptoms.