Pushkar Singh Raikhola
Aging is an emerging social issue for Nepal because fertility has started going down in recent years, the mortality is declining fast and the life expectancy is continuing to increase for both sexes in Nepal. It is important to understand the aging issue in the proper demographic and national context. In Nepal traditional systems of care, living arrangements, and familial responsibilities that once centered around or within the family network are changing to look more like Western, individualistic systems. The traditional joint family is slowly being replaced by nuclear family in urban areas. The caring of elderly population is a major problem.
Aging, elderly care, health status, living condition, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal.