DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i12.017

Pages: 1867-1874

In the year 2011, the Election Commission of India has started to publish separate voter list who belonging to 80 years and above age. However, Department of Finance, Government of India categorized as ‘Super Senior Citizen’ for the purpose of income tax assessment. The term “Oldest Old” was coined in 1984 in a session at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to refer to the population aged 85 and older. In India most of the gerontological studies considered the ‘elderly’ (aged 60 years and above) as a single age category and therefore, did not deal with the problems of oldest old population separately despite the fact that the octogenarian, nonagenarian and centenarians sub-population were very much in existence in the demographic scenario of India from the remote past.