Healthy Aging Research
Open Access

Abstract

The feasibility of elderly care of institutional care in South Asia

Sachina Paudel

A narrative review was carried out on existing literature on the feasibility of elderly care of institutional care in South Asia. Physiological changes take place in human body with increasing the age where proper care is necessary as senior people are vulnerable to various health problems. Appropriate institutional or day care is needed for elderly people. The paper shows the feasibility of institutional care with practicability approaches with exploring the existences in South Asian countries for elderly people. Articles were searched through using various search engines such as Google scholar with using few keywords. Further analyses were carries out using Microsoft excel for creating data matrix. The elderly population is increasing with decreasing fertility rate in the South Asian region where the concept of institutionalization care for elderly care hasn’t yet established. Elderly care is just initiated and found to be poor in South Asian region. In order to tackle the health consequences of elderly people with increasing population elderly people required proper institutional care in either home or institution

Published Date: 2021-01-24; Received Date: 2019-07-16