Elders Being Happy and the Influencing Factors in Shivamogga, Karnataka, India

Introduction:India ranks 4th in the elderly population. Ageing play an important role in the well being and associated factors. The present study was conducted to understand the feeling of the elderly residing in urban and rural areas of Shivamogga, Karnataka southern India. Methods: The study was conducted on 200 elderly by a questionnaire on their socio demographic profile, health, residing place, lifestyle, life satisfaction, dissatisfaction, culture, tradition, the role of technology and government. Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficient. Results:For most of the analysed factors rural elders had shown strong positive correlation compared to urban elders. Health condition is positively significant in rural elders (rs = 0.76, p 0.05), when compared to urban elders (rs = 0.67, p 0.05), the place of residing is having strong correlation with rural (rs = 0.97, p 0.05), because they reside in their own home then urban (rs = 0.56, p 0.05), as they reside in rented house hence their attachment to rented house is less than own home. Conclusion: The elders of ruralurban areas of shivamogga had shown positive significance with the selected factors, but the strong inclination is towards rural elders. The ruralurban divide and emotional psychological behaviours need further investigation