A Study on Psychological Factors on the Health of Elderly People

Abstract

Ageing is defined in terms of chronological age with a cut off age of 60 or 65 years. The health of people deteriorates with the increase of age. Psychological factors play an important role in health inequalities. In this paper a study is made to have an idea about the various psychological factors and their effects on the health of the elderly people. The study is based on primary data. The data is collected through multistage random sampling and analyzed by logistic regression method and correspondence analysis is used for simple two variable scatter plots.