Manish Kumar
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Community Medicine
Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, India
Alok Kumar
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine
Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, India
Abstract
In this research paper, we are interested to obtain a very intense understanding of how elderly tribal people prospect towards changes in society which they live. We call these perceptions, people’s attitudes and belief in the people and institutions which govern society and the outcomes they achieve. A more appropriate understanding of this area, can better equip policymakers to discover those socio-economic groups of the population that have negative perceptions of their society, and think carefully about suitable responses. While there is a welcome increase in attention to personal wellbeing, combining this with a better understanding of perceptions regarding changes in society can be valuable after all the policy solutions to create and maintain ‘good lives’ (reflected in increased individual life satisfaction) may be quite different from those leading to the ‘good society’. A community based empirical study was conducted in rural areas of Northern India. The study would be based on primary data quantitative in nature. The data collected are at both the household level and at the individual level. Therefore, it is necessary to contextualise wellbeing not only as personal, but as a social and institutional phenomenon. This focuses on external evaluations of society as well as internal reflections of wellbeing and happiness.
Key words: Elderly, India, Tribal Culture, Changes
