Abstract
There are 841 million aged persons in the world and this number is expected to
increase up to 200 million by the year 2050. In developing countries like Pakistan,
aged persons with minimal social security benefits are living in miserable
situations. In Pakistani society women are overburdened with the responsibilities
of their families. But with changing family dynamic like nuclearization of family
system in the absence of social security or old age benefits elder women needs to
be studied to understand their vulnerabilities. So, the study objective was to
explore the socioeconomic vulnerabilities of elder women to understand the
impact of nuclearization of family system on elder women in the country. To gain
an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon the researcher adopted case study
method under interpretivism. The researcher found elder women in nuclear family
system with less social interaction, high dissatisfaction from the absence of their
children around, and highly vulnerable due to economic dependency.
Nuclearization of family system has impact on elder women considering they were
useless individuals just waiting for their time to leave this world because this was
the time of young generation. The researcher made some recommendations on the
basis of study findings that elder women should be provided old age benefits,
proper counseling for their mental wellbeing, proper health care and should be
studied more deeply.
Ra’ana Malik, Farooq-e-Azam. (2018) Nuclearization of family and the status of elderly women: A case study of District Sargodha, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 2.
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