Health Status and Treatment Seeking Among Elderly in India Algur Kisan1, Dhundale Rupesh2 1Research Officer, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Deonar, Mumbai, India 2Research Student, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Deonar, Mumbai, India Online published on 29 December, 2017. Abstract The study lights on the health status and treatment seeking, as the older people mostly have incomplete recovering abilities and are more susceptible to disease, syndrome, and sickness as well affected by the several social issues. The NSSO, 71st round (2014) used to assess the objectives of the study, whereas Statistical software used to analyse the data. Therefore, elderly has higher health problems especially most of them suffer from chronic ailments and their treatment seeking is hindered by various socio-economic factors. With this backdrop, it is worth studying the number of hospitalized person and their treatment seeking behaviour as well as nature of ailment they have and which type of care they are providing as per their economic status and perception towards their health conditions. During the 365 days preceding the survey and significant risk factors associated with the prevalence of any chronic ailment are increasing age, literacy status, caste, region and perceived poor health status. The strengths of this study are it provides an update on the status of elderly health and treatment seeking in the country, which is important for policy and program perspective, especially given the fact proportion of elderly in India, is growing considerably. Top Keywords Elderly, Health Status, Socio-Economic Factors, Treatment Seeking. Top |