Self esteem depression death anxiety and quality of life among institutionalized and non institutionalized elderly with and without spouse

Abstract

Aging is an important stage in human life wherein there are physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional and social changes. The age of 60 or 65 years is said to be the beginning of old age (Gorman, 2000). The process of aging is found to have an influence on Self esteem, Depression, Death anxiety and Quality of life. Since all these variables have an influence on one another the present research aims to study Self esteem, Depression, Death anxiety and Quality of life among elderly in relation to domicile, gender and spousal status and also to find the relationship between these variables .The sample comprised of 120 Institutionalized and 120 Non institutionalized elderly.