Leisure and Aged Persons

Today there is very big problem of leisure among aged persons in India. While in the olden days the patterns of leisure were traditional in the joint family but today there is very sea change in the family as joint families are changing very rapidly in nuclear families. The present study is focused upon 110 aged persons in a small town of Uttar Pradesh in India. The question rose in this study that how they feel today in comparison to olden days. In this study we found that the traditional patterns of leisure among aged persons are replaced with modern patterns of leisure.