fixed and reduced income with which to meet rising medical expenses, and iii) loss social support because of the death of spouse and friends, dispersal of children due to their job and/or wedlock, and disengagement from social life (Harba et al., 1997). From middle age onwards a person confronts changes in the social environment and in his physical body, which require readjustment on his behavioural pattern. In the elderly, increase of the psychological problems like – low self-esteem, anxiety and depression are common. However, these problems can be tampered by the adequacy of the individual‟s social support. Friends, fellow workers, family members and neighbours can ease the burden. But if one is cut of from work, from children and from spouse, the changes of trauma increases manifold (Chadha & Khuble, 1997).