Indian Journal of Regional Science
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 1

Quality of living among the elderly in slums of Kolkata

  • Author:
  • Dipendra Nath Das, Sweta Bhusan
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 81 to 94

*Associated with Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU, New Delhi

**Associated with Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU, New Delhi

Online published on 20 June, 2017.

Abstract

The Ageing of population is a worldwide phenomenon irrespective of the levels of development. However, quality of living varies from place to place. A study on the living conditions of the elderly population in the selected slums of Kolkata has been undertaken to depict the spatial variation among the selected slums. While living condition is somewhat better in older slums, it is worse in newer ones.