Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Nursing

The elderly people have been transiting through serious risks in their residual life. The changing socio-psychological environment of the contemporary world attributed by the sociopsychological and  ehavioural aspects instilled and stimulated by the global political economy largely influenced and interfered towards the contemporary environment social context. The life of the elderly people have to be better off, context, they should be taken care of through adequate social security measures and
the government is seems to be one of most responsible agency who can interfere in to this issues legally and as a responsible service of the government. In India the government have been implemented numerous number of social security measures through different policies and programmes. This paper focuses on the programmes implemented by the government of India for the social welfare of elderly people. This paper used secondary data from government published sources and from the survey of review of related literature on various dimensions
of social support of silver India. The enquiry found out that, the government implemented numerous numbers of policies and programmes which are effective to revamp the risky life of elderly people in India.
Keywords: Government of India; Initiatives; Social welfare measure; Policies and programmes; Elderly.

In this paper, an attempt is made to understand the levels and patterns of chronic morbidity among senior citizens in India, and their hospitalisation using the National Sample Survey (71st round) which was conducted in 2014. This paper also explores the gender and spatial dimensions of chronic morbidity in India. Evidences suggested that urgent steps are required to reduce the prevalence rate of chronic morbidity among elderly in the country.
Keywords: Chronic ailment; Senior citizens; India

The younger generation perceives the affairs in their own way and works according to their own liking, the older generation obstructs them by their own views and experiences directly or indirectly, creating an inter generational conflict in the society. The present study focuses on intergenerational conflicts among younger and older generations. Intergenerational conflict scale developed by Km. Roma Pal (1984) was used to collect the data. The sample consists of 80 subjects include 40 from the younger generation (18–25 years) and another 40 from the age group of 55+ yrs. The data was collected by using simple randomizing
technique. Results indicate that there are significant differences among young and older generation and Gender-wise and no Locality-wise differences were found with regard to Inter generational Conflict. Age, gender and locality were significantly associated with sub areas of Intergenerational conflict. Results are discussed in the light of psychological interventions..
Keywords: Inter-generational conflict; Younger and older generations.