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The life expectancy of both men and women has gradually been increasing
in the past few decades due to improvement in medical facilities and its
availability to larger number of people leading to an increase in the
proportion of elderly people in the population. However, factors like the
fast pace of life, smaller family norm, breaking of joint family system, and
industrialisation are leading to conditions where despite lengthening of
survival, maintenance of mental health of elderly people especially that of
women is not receiving as much attention as required. In the literature, the
elderly women in general and elderly housewives in particular have so far
been neglected. The present study, hence, aims at assessing the perception
of received social support and mental ill health of elderly housewives in
the age range of fifty years and above. Correlational analysis revealed
that high levels of companionship as well as emotional support was
associated with lower levels of obsessive traits and symptoms, somatic
concomitant anxiety, neurotic depression and overall mental ill health
only within older. Women 60 year however, no significant association
between social support and measures of mental ill health existed in less
eldary 50-60yrs women. Results seem to suggest the importance of
companionship and emotional support for maintenance of mental health
for older housewives. Results have been analysed in view of the changes
in the familial and social conditions of the housewives as they grow older
and suggestions for improving the quality of their lives have been given.