Comparative Study to Assess the Coping Strategies among Elderly People Living in Selected Communities and Old Age Homes, Bangalore

Ms. Nongmeikapam Memichand

Comparative Study to Assess the Coping Strategies among Elderly People Living in Selected Communities and Old Age Homes, Bangalore

Author(s)	Ms. Nongmeikapam Memichand
Country	India
Abstract	Background: Aging is an inevitable and irreversible demographic reality associated with improvements in health and medical care, as well as with a decline in fertility while increasing longevity is a matter to celebrate, various have found multiple morbidities and disabilities linked to the advancement of age. Difficult life situations require the use of appropriate strategies of coping with stress 'coping' is understood as taking action to reduce or eliminate both the cause of stress and its influence on physical and psychological health individuals usually use more than one coping strategy and their type is related to overall level of stress it will better out come and stress relief. Objective: The purpose of the study is to assess the coping strategies among elderly people living in selected community and old age home, Bangalore, in view to develop a pamphlet. Materials and methods: A Comparative descriptive design was used to assess coping strategies among elderly people living in community and old age home. The study was carried out at Ananda Vihar senior’s home and health care centre and Gottigere community area, Bengaluru and 30 elderly people each were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling techniques. The Brief- COPE questionnaire was used to assess coping strategies of elderly. Result: The result reveal that the level of coping strategies among elderly people living in community , 28(93.3%) have adaptive coping strategies, and 2(6.6%) have maladaptive coping strategies and the level of coping strategies among elderly people living in old-age home , 24(80%)have adaptive coping strategies, and 6(20%)have maladaptive coping strategies. The comparison between the coping strategies of elderly people living in community and the old age home, unpair t test show that t=8.0 and is statistically significant at the 0.05 level. Conclusion: It was concluded that elderly people living in community have better coping strategies compared to elderly living in old age home
Keywords	coping strategies, elderly people, old age home, community
Field	Medical / Pharmacy
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-25

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