Loneliness in people aged between 50-80 years in L.Dhan’bidhoo: reasons for being lonely

Abstract

Nowadays we see a lot of elderly people who live a lonely life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons or to identify the factors which leads to loneliness in the elderly. This is a quantitative study. The objectives of the study is to find the reasons for the people aged 50-80 to be lonely, who lives in L. Dhan’bidhoo. Cross sectional study is used in this research. Random sampling technique was used to collect data and an interviewer administered questionnaire was used. SPSS was used to analyze the data. The results show that mostly women feel lonely than men.