An Overview of the Health Issues of the Elderly: A Cross Sectional Study

Background: In the changing era of our community posing a challengeable situation to senior support-needing population community, there is need know different kinds problems faced by elderly. view all these facts, this study was conducted various health related among geriatrics.
 Objective: To in elderly population.
 Materials and methods: This cross-sectional carried out May August 2020 Ernakulam district Kerala, India. 150 (aged above 60 years) were interviewed using predesigned questionnaire.
 Results: present study, 45.33% males 54.67% females. Among total elderly, 27.33% illiterate, 56.00% had received primary education, 14.00% secondary education while only 2.67% up graduate level. The common decreased vision (35.33%), followed arthritis (13.33%), hearing (12.00%), urinary (8.00%), diabetes(6.00%), weight loss (4.67%), dental (4.00%), Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3.33%), Hypertension (3.00%), asthma anaemia with (2.67%) each, fatty liver cancer (2.00%) each Ischemic heart (0.67%) .
 Conclusion: highlights face. it found that most prevalent problem geriatrics impairment impairment.
 Keywords: Geriatrics; visual impairment; Health problems; Arthritis; Ageing.