A sociological study on state home of elders at Kaithady in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Abstract

Man has been winning the natural environment due to the industrial and technological development. As development of a medical and health facilities, the life expectancy of the human has been increasing. It is the result of increasing amount of elders all over the world. Lot of elders is sent to the elder’s home. Kaithady state home of elders is selected as the suitable place for research. There are eight men and eight women selected randomly for this research purpose. The most of the data are qualitative and quantitative data also were used. The primary data were collected by the “In-Depth Interview” the secondary data were collected in the office of “State Home of Elders”. In order to analyze the collected data, the “Thematic Analysis” was used mainly. In addition, the “Human Narrative Analysis” and “Simple Descriptive Statistical Analysis” were used to bring the results to high level. The civil war in Sri Lanka was the main reason for them to come to the elder’s home. Spent their life without marriage, lack of siblings, breaking of contact with their brothers and sisters, breaking of contact by love marriage, remarriage of couples, poor level of education and lack of own property or land are the some of the important factors that induced find to elders’ home. 88% of samples do not have their own land or property and they are unable to live individually. Some time, more than two factors induce together on them to come to elders home. Last description, breaking of family bond can also be a reason. Medical and physical facilities are satisfactory found in elders home. Many elders in the elders’ home are affected by mentally disorder persons. There is verbal war among the elderly people. Finally, the causes for coming to elders home must be minimized and the issues relating to elders should be reduced. It is the duty of every person make elders’ life happily because the living resource of our country.