Assessment Of Stress Among Who Take Care Of Elderly Individuals At Home In Selected Rural Community At Kanchipuram Distrect, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

“Care givers is any one who provides any type of physical and/or emotional care for an ill or disabled loved
one at home. Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand” study topic was Assessment
of stress among who take care of elderly in a selected rural community at Kanchipuram district, tamilnadu,
India. the study objectives are to assess the stress level of family care givers and to associate the level of
stress among caregiver with selected demographic Variables such as age, sex, education, work, reliever for
care giver, presence of chronic illness. the research approach used was quantitative-research approach.yhe
research design used was descriptive research design. The research setting was Vadakadambadi. The total
sample was 90 old age care givers at home. the sampling technique was non probability purposive sampling
technique. a self administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The result shows was mild stress 82
(91%),moderate stress 07 (7.77),severe stress 0 (0%).the study reveals that there is no significant association
between stress of family care givers with age, sex, educational status, working status, reliever of old age
care givers.