DISABLED ELDERLY IN KARNATAKA

Elderly or aged people are the fundamental issues in 21st centuries, because the entire world moves towards ageing or elderly world. Elderly in developed countries enjoy the later life with good socio, economic and health conditions but in developing countries like India or in our study area elderly faced the several psycho- social and health problems because developing countries are reaching the old stage in the process of population ageing before they become rich in the developmental aspects. As a result here population ageing process creates the unhealthy, disabled and dependent elderly. Therefore the present paper focuses on the temporal trend and spatial patterns of different types of disabilities of elderly in Karnataka. For this purposes I collected the last two decades age specific total and disabled elderly population data and find out that the proportion of different types of disabled elderly in total disabled elderly population in Karnataka. The result shows that in Karnataka ageing process increase the disabled elderly from decade to decade with gender and spatial differences.