Adjustment problems of Elderly Widows within their own families

The human life span is a cycle of circumstances where each individual passes through the stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, middle-age and finally old age. The last stage often renders a person physically and emotionally weak. Their physical and emotional capacities decelerate with advancing age and as the result they can no longer take care of their own needs. Elderly and their children are profoundly influenced by social structure and processes, not just in the positive manner of spectators, but as active participants whose behavior, preferences feelings and beliefs influence the social situation and future lives of joint actions. Parents and young married couples were linked in interactions, communication and processes of mutual aid that involved services, care, emotional binding and financial help, the flow being generally from parents to children. But when parents become widow the problem will be other way round. With this background, an attempt is made in this paper to focus on the influences of social, psychological, economic and health factors on the financial, personal and the advisory exchanges of the elderly widow women with their married children.