Living Arrangements in Health Care seeking among Elderly in India: Some New Insights

India lacks adequate social security and institutional set up to support the growing proportion and number of aged population. Therefore, family and relatives continue to provide support to the health and well being of the elderly. This paper attempts to examine differential in treatment seeking and the factors responsible for such differential among the elderly from similar economic group but with different living arrangements using NSSO 60th round (25.0 sob-round) data. Gini concentration index has been used to find out the intra-economic group inequality in treatment seeking due to living arrangement. Decomposition analysis has been done to find out the importance of living arrangement and other factors of treatment seeking behaviour. Treatment seeking is highest among elderly living with spouse and other members and lowest among those live alone or with non-relatives. Sex and economic dependency do not play significant role in treatment seeking behaviour in middle and high MPCE households.