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| Aging trends - Making an invisible population visible: the elderly in Bangladesh | | Author(s) | Zarina Nahar Kabir, Marta Szebehely, Carol Tishelman |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 13, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 361-378 |
| Keywords | Social characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Needs [elderly] ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Social surveys ; Bangladesh. |
| Annotation | This article offers a portrait of the socio-demographic characteristics of older people in Bangladesh, and compares the ageing situation of older men and women in an urban and a rural area. A multi-dimensional survey assessing their health care needs was conducted in urban and rural Bangladesh from November 1995 to February 1996. During the survey, information was collected on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, family support, functional ability, illness experiences, and use of health care facilities. The very high proportion of older men in this study were married, and despite shorter average life expectancy, most of the older women were widowed. Traditional norms in Bangladesh require that parents be looked after by the children, preferably sons, in old age. Data from the current study provide evidence of this, not only in relation to living with children, but also the general tendency to live with sons rather than daughters. However, there is a shift away from this in urban areas. The article ends by noting that social security systems of the type in high income countries are not viable in Bangladesh: older people are not perceived as a priority group for government support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826272 A |
| Classmark | F: CC: IK: RL: RK: 3F: 7FD |
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