DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.084

Pages: 818-823

Introduction: Ageing is a normal, universal and an inevitable change, which takes place even with the best of health care. It entails all aspects of the life form and is mainly exemplify by the decline in capability to compensate and recover from the stress. Elderly people are vulnerable to psychological and social crisis and to a typical presentation of illness common to the Elderly People. The most common old age problems are economic dependency, loneliness, insecurity, diminished self-concept, physical illness, perceptual and cognitive problems like diminished vision, hearing and memory. Morbidity increases with advancement of age. However in recent years, the issues or problems of old people in society have increasingly become prominent. There are 81million older people in India. Material &Methods: Study was conducted among 200 Elderly People with a simple random technique from 10-04-2018 to 14-08-2018 to assess the Psychological Problems of Elderly People and Available Support System in Urban Community of Jaipur (Raj). Results: The data revealed that Majority (72%) reported to have moderate Psychological problems and (28%) had only mild problems. Majority of were getting support from their relatives and 53 percent enjoy moderate support from friends where as 47 percent have poor support from friends. Conclusion: Psychological problem of the Elderly People are very common and Social support available for the Elderly People in the society is inadequate and governmental and non-governmental agencies have to take serious steps to improvise in this direction.