INTRODUCTION: Changing family structure (Joint to Nuclear), increased life expectancy above 60 years of age, generation and communication gap, financial dependency on @entity1 leads to conflict among family members. This may sometime lead to old age home settlement of elderly @entity1 . All these condition leads to isolation and insecurity among elderly @entity1 and this condition affect the mental status of elderly @entity1 which may sometime lead to @entity308 among Old Age Homes residents and family living elderly @entity1 . OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of @entity308 and diagnosed systemic morbidities among elderly @entity1 . To study the predictors of @entity308 among study subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among elderly @entity1 (age >= 60 years) residing in @entity4536 ( @entity4536 ) and in community/families in Lucknow, India. Multistage sampling technique was used to include required sample of subjects from the community and for @entity4536 all the elderly @entity1 living in @entity4536 were included. Geriatric @entity308 scale was used to screen @entity308 . RESULTS: @entity308 was 27.7% among elderly @entity1 residing in @entity4536 while it was 15.6% those residing at their own homes. In community most frequent morbidity was @entity101 (17.7%) while 41.1% elderly @entity1 had no diagnosed morbidity. In @entity4536 out of total the musculoskeletal morbidity (33.7%) was most frequent and 18.8% had no diagnosed morbidity. On multivariate analysis financial dependency and education were found to be statistically significant. CONCLUSION: @entity308 was more common among elderly living in Old Age Homes as compare to those living in community. @entity101 , musculoskeletal morbidities and eye related morbidities were most frequent diagnosed morbidities. Financial Dependency _ Education were found to be primary predictors of @entity308 .

Screening XXXX Among Elderly in a City of Southeast Asia.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'people'] @entity4536 :: ('MESH:D016773', 'Disease') :: ['old age homes', 'OAHs'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['Depression', 'depression'] @entity101 :: ('MESH:D006973', 'Disease') :: ['hypertension', 'Hypertension']
@entity308 :: (MESH:D003866,Disease) :: ['Depression']
