Residential interiors related problems of elderly in Dharwad

Abstract

Hundred elderly were surveyed to highlight their residential interiors related problems. Findings of study showed that the problems faced and its extent with respect to various major aspects of house design viz., problems related to house design in general entrance and stairs, bedroom, bathroom and water closet and kitchen were recorded. When the selected respondents asked to indicate their response with respect to above variable less than 25.00 per cent have considered them as a problem causing variables and majority of the selected respondents (more than 75.00%) have considered them as not problematic. For problems related to house in general and bedroom male and female revealed more or less similar mean percentage i.e. 25.83, 24.00 and 20.17, 20.56 respectively. Problems with respect to entrance and stairs bathroom and water closet and kitchen mean percentage of male respondents found to be more than female viz., 32.75 vs 17.13, 25.69 vs 18.24 and 29.60 vs 21.38 respectively. However, irrespective of gender problems related to kitchen was found to be the highest with the mean per cent of 22.85. However t-value for gender difference for various problems faced was not significant. Thus statistically male and female do not differ for problems faced with respect to various aspects of house design.