SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES ON AGED POPULATION AND DISEASE BURDEN-

As more as people live longer, concern with their health is the most important of middle and older ages. This paper aims to examine the disease burden among the aged persons in the study area. To analyze the socio-economic and demographic background characteristics of the aged person in the study area. To find the predictors of the disease burden among the aged persons in the town with fitted model of logistic regression analysis The present analysis has been made the data obtained from the aged persons in the Kumbakonam town. 3 percent of the respondents were selected as the sample from the total population. But removing uncorrected schedule 300 samples were taken for the analysis. . The analysis indicated that except sex and religion other variables significantly associated with dependent variable at 0.05 percent.