To Assess Effectiveness of Clapping Therapy among Elderly People for Selected Physical & Psychosocial Health Improvement in a Selected Old Age Homes at Indore City

The elderly in world population is expected to register an increase from 605 million (9.9 %) in 2001 to 1.9 billion (20.7 %) in 2050. Among the elderly, that is an increase of 224 percentage since 1975. Currently as per WHO estimates there are about 580 million older people in the world. In present study one group pre-test post-test design was used. Non probability purposive sampling technique was adopted. Total number of samples are 60 selected with the help of inclusive, exclusive criteria. After administration of clapping therapy majority of elderly people (82.8 %) were promoted to good (21-30) category reflected the effectiveness of clapping therapy among elderly people for selected physical & psychosocial health improvement.