Study of Socioeconomic Factors in Relation to Depression among Elderly People Living in Rural Area of Andhra Pradesh.

Abstract

The world population has been experiencing significant ageing. With the increase in life expectancy, rapidly changing social and physical environment, breaking of traditional protective measures, increase in morbidity due to chronic non communicable disease will lead to increased psychological disorders like depression. This study was conducted to find out the prevalence of depression district and its relation to socio demographic factors of the elderly population..