Retired and aging people: a study of their problem

One of the crucial problems of industrialization is the mandatory regulation of retirement. The technological advancement reduces the old skilled manpower out of labour force, whether or not they are physically, mentally or economically ready for retirement from the ir life's major activity. deteriorates the personal and social ife of the retirees. As a consequence, it From meaningful a employment a retiree is shifted to a non productive role, where he has to be contended with less income and live in a sort social isolation with deteriorating of physical and mental health, and adjust
with low status in the family. This sudden change in the life pattern as well as habits may give rise to traumatic eX
perience. In a way, retirement has many meanings to those who are undergoing it,
Sociologists, psychologists and geronto- logists of late have interest in the problems of aged people, Gerontological researches. particularly in the retirement patterns, have led to conceptualization of the problem of retirement, The indings of these resear-
ches throw light on three major themes of retirement viz. shown greater engagement versus disengagement, integration versus segre-gation, and 'role-the ory'.
The last theoretical orientation viz. 'role-
theory', is the curtailment of occupation-
al role of the people through a manda- tory regulation of attaining a certain age limit
The author has made an attempt to pre sent the socio-economic retirement after
problems of those retirees whose occupational role is curtailed through a mandatory retirement
regulation. To achieve this end, a sample of 352 (pensioner and non pensioner) retirees was selected to know the kind
of changes that have taken place in their personal, social, economic, family, health and psychological make-up after retire- ment,
The book highlights the personal, family and social life of the retirees, and their economic, health and psychological pro-
blems, There is no doubt that a pioneer-