Home within Home !A Multidimensional Analysis of Social Exclusion of Elderly People in Mysore City of India

Abstract

In any society aged or elderly people will be respected and treasured. In majority cases aged people will be in the twilight of their life. Family and society is supposed to honor them. However in this materialistic world where our youngster is socializing in a very different manner elderly people have become a kind of burden to their family. Recent data to data on the age of India’s population, in Census 2001, there are not less than 76.6 million people above 60 years, constituting 7.2 per cent of the population. The aim of this paper is to find out how aged people are being excluded in their family by the other member. Studies have found that aged people are being excluded in much way by their family members itself. In rural areas situation of the aged is quite pathetic. They are being treated as an unproductive asset. They are not being respected by the young siblings. Family members are not showing much interest about the aged members of the family. This paper concludes that strong social policy for the social protection and inclusion of the aged is need of the hour. Also instead of sympathy, family members should extend support, love and affection to the aged to spend their remaining life smoothly.