TNNMC Journal of Community Health Nursing

  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 1

Emotional well being of senior citizens staying in old age home and with family

  • Author:
  • A Lalitha
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Published Online: Jan 4, 2025
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 4 to 6

Professor, Mohamed Sathak AJ College of Nursing, Chennai

Abstract

A study was conducted to assess and compare the emotional wellbeing of senior citizens staying in old age home and with senior citizens living with their family. Non-experimental descriptive research design was used. Total of 100 samples were selected using purposive sampling technique. The study findings revealed that 66% of senior citizens living with family had positive level of emotional wellbeing whereas among the senior citizens staying in old age home only 16 % of them had positive emotional wellbeing.

Keywords

Old age, Emotional wellbeing