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Accepted Paper:

Aging and Quality of Life in Himalayan tribes  
Surya Kumar Srivastava (Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar (UK-India))

Paper short abstract:

This study describes process of aging and quality of life in himalyan tribes based on review of studies and suggests various ways and means for its improvement.

Paper long abstract:

This paper reviews aging and quality of life in Himalayan tribes. Successful aging requires an understanding of the individual person in the context of the environment; in other words successful aging is composed of characteristics within the individual and an environment that can help or hinder. The term quality of life is often discussed in broad terms as satisfaction of needs, feelings of well-being, good or bad working conditions, and other indicators. This study is aimed to assess process of aging and the quality of life among Himalayan tribes. It is evaluated through analysing current studies, research articles and literatures. This paper provides a concept based findings. These reviews may offer an approximate view on aging and quality of life in Himalayan tribes. Findings of the current study suggest that the overall standard of livings and related developmental activities in Himalayan tribes may help in aging process and in their quality in life. It is recommended some of the various ways and means like promoting psycho-social life, developing basic needs for a standard livings, raising socio-economic standards, organizing socio-cultural activity, by making and implementing government policies, following fundamental principles based on human-nature contact and integrity, and introducing the various programmes of development in the Himalayan tribes.

Keyword: Aging, Quality of Life, Tribes, The Himalayan region

Panel LD30
Ageing and quality of life of the aged with special reference to Himalayan tribes
  Session 1 Thursday 8 August, 2013, -