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ThesisItem Open Access WELLNESS OF ELDERLY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED AND UNENGAGED RETIRED PEOPLE(2019-07) Devi, Huidrom Rinky; Saikia, JinamoniThe age of elderly comprises of the later part of our life, the period of life after youth and middle age with reference to deterioration (WHO, 2016). The deterioration brings changes in the person‟s active participation in different areas of life, role playing and role performance. Maintenance of strong social relationship and other social activities have been linked to wellness and thereby increase longevity. Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices for a healthy and fulfilling life. The present study entitled “Wellness of Elderly: A comparative study of socially engaged and unengaged retired people” was undertaken with the following objectives: 1. To find out the characteristics of socially engaged and unengaged retired people 2. To study the levels of wellness of retired people 3. Comparison of wellness between socially engaged and unengaged retired people A total of 100 (50 socially engaged retired people and 50 socially unengaged retired people) retired people from the age group of 60 to 70 years were selected purposively from the selected wards from the state of Manipur. A questionnaire was constructed to elicit the background information of the respondents. In order to find out the characteristics of socially engaged and unengaged retired respondents, self constructed questionnaires were administered. A structured standardized questionnaire named „Wellness Self Assessment scale‟ developed by Princeton University (2018) was administered in order to assess the level of wellness of retired people. The findings revealed that 34 per cent of socially engaged and 36 per cent of socially unengaged respondents were between the age of 60 to 65 years. Majority of the respondents were highly educated and belonged to middle income families. Majority (56%) of socially engaged respondents had membership in non government organizations. Socially unengaged respondents were not involved in any kind of organizations owing to their physical frailty (38%), unwillingness (14%) and responsibilities of grandchildren (20%). Less number of respondent were found in socially engaged and unengaged groups who had outstanding level of social (SE-86%, SUE-62%), emotional (SE-86%, SUE-82%) and spiritual (SE- 90%, SUE- 84%) wellness. Significant difference between socially engaged and unengaged respondents were found in the dimensions of intellectual (0.012), occupational (0.005), social (0.001) and spiritual (0.041) wellness. Percentage difference between socially engaged and socially unengaged was found to be highest (5%) in the dimension of social wellness. Among socially engaged respondents, less number of respondents of the age group of 60-65 years were found in outstanding level of social wellness (85.3%) while less number of respondents of the age group of 65-70 years were found in outstanding level of emotional (75%), social (87.5%) and spiritual (81.3%) wellness. Significant differences were also found between socially engaged male and socially unengaged male in the dimensions of intellectual (0.010), occupational (0.011) and social wellness (0.022) where less number of socially unengaged male were found in outstanding level of wellness in these dimensions. There was significant difference between socially engaged female and socially unengaged female in the dimension of social wellness (0.021) where a considerably less number of female respondents (47.4%) were found to have outstanding level of social wellness. It can be concluded that the involvement of elderly people in social organization, either in formal or informal groups, should be a must to lead a purposeful and meaningful life which contributes towards well being of human society.
