• PANKAJ SHARMA

Background: Old age can be defined as the cumulating developmental event at a particular point of time in the life of an individual. Depression is a serious condition for people of all ages, but for older people depression is often associated with other co-morbid conditions, such as physical disability and anxiety that exacerbate the distress experienced by older people and their care takers. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self- to the mediating intellect- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mood, “The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. Aims and objectives: To find out the relationship with depression in relation to loneliness and life satisfaction among old age participants. Methodology: A correlational research design was adopted for the study conducted on 80 old age people after obtaining permission from the higher authorities at Nagaur, Rajasthan. The samples were selected by means of random sampling technique. The data regarding the depression in relation to loneliness and life satisfaction were collected by means of self-administered questionnaire and was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The study findings show that the mean depression score is 26.75 and the average score of life satisfaction is 21.076, thereby interpreting that as life satisfaction decreases in old age, depression increases as well as whenever life satisfaction increases, depression as a result decreases in old age. Conclusion: The study concluded that loneliness is significantly and positively related to depression in old age. Thus, it is very much essential to provide some kind of diversional therapy as well as some kind of activities to the old age people so that their life satisfaction increases and thereby depression tends to decrease thus to live a happy life with satisfaction.

Depression, Life Satisfaction, Loneliness, Old age

"“A STUDY TO ASSESS DEPRESSION IN RELATION TO LONELINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION WITH REFERENCE TO OLD AGE PEOPLE IN NAGAUR, RAJASTHAN”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.h13-h25, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207703.pdf

"“A STUDY TO ASSESS DEPRESSION IN RELATION TO LONELINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION WITH REFERENCE TO OLD AGE PEOPLE IN NAGAUR, RAJASTHAN”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. pph13-h25, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207703.pdf