European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction: As of 2011, India has a population of 1.21 billion people. It is the second most populous country in the world, next only to China. In absolute numbers the population of persons above 60 years was around 76.62 million in 2001, will rise to nearly 179 million by 2031 and 324 million by 2050. In addition, as people age there are increased chances of becoming disabled, and once disabled, there are increased chances of deterioration with decreased likelihood of recovering from disability. AIM: To assess the Geriatric Morbidity pattern, Activities of daily Living (ADL) and Mini Mental Scale Evaluation (MMSE). Methodology: A Cross sectional study with multistage random sampling technique was used to select the requisite number of elderly for a sample size of 600. Results: Mean age of the study population is 66.9 with SD ± 5.73 years ranging from 60 to 88 year. Multi-morbidity was seen early in nearly 70% the study population, this seems to increase with increasing age which ranged from 57.4% to 85.3% and this association was statistically significant (p value = 0.002). The total morbidity in the study population was found to be 96.3%. Conclusion: Curative medicine has a very limited role to deal with the problems of elderly in terms of impairments and diseases. Palliative care is needed to tackle impairments and complications of NCDs.