A STUDY ON LIFE STYLE AND PASTIMES OF RETIRED PEOPLE

Retirement is the time in a person’s life when he is no longer employed. The retirement age varies and generally lies between 55 to 60 years. This study was conducted to explore the lifestyles of retired people as well as their pastimes. The data was collected through snowball sampling technique from district Chakwal under Union Council Dhudial with the help of semi structured questionnaire by drawing a sample of 103 respondents from different professions from four villages of Union Council Dhudial. The findings suggested that most of retired people were having a lot of health problems and liked to stay home all the time with their families. They had limited social life after retirement and spent most the time with their children and grandchildren. Another factor affecting their psychological health was found to be economic crises. The data was collected over four and half weeks which was then analyzed on SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).