Hom Nath Chalise

Tribhuvan University · Central Department of Population Studies

This study aimed to assess Successful Aging (SA) and its association with Nepali older people. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among 206 elderly people of seven old age homes in the Kathmandu district. The interview technique using a structured questionnaire was taken after informed consent. The data collection tool was based on th...

Background: Self-reported health (SRH) is a subjective measurement tool for overall health status that integrates biological, social, mental, and functional aspects of individuals. Objectives: The purpose of this article is to assess the SRH and its correlates among community-living older adults. Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of struc...

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic health conditions in older people and is increasingly becoming a major public health concern. Objectives: The study aims to assess the quality of life among older patients living with COPD. Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from Fe...

Background: Self-reported health (SRH) is a subjective measurement tool of overall health status. It integrates with the biological, social, mental, and functional aspects of individuals. The aim of this article is to assess the SRH and its correlates among community-living older men from Nepal. Methods: This study uses the secondary data collected...

Population aging is taking place rapidly in Nepal. The purpose of this article is to present the aging situation in Nepal. Data from different published sources are used in this article. There are 29.1 million older people in Nepal as of the 2021 census. The proportion of older people 60 years and older reached 10.12 percent of the total population...

The Proportion of the elderly in Nepal is increasing rapidly. Senior citizens are prone to spirits of loneliness. It comprises both solitary life and life with the potential to participate in interaction with others. The purpose of the study was to analyze the loneliness situation among Nepalese young senior citizens. The subjects (n = 513) inhabit...

Anxiety and depression are the most common psychological problems in older people. The older people living in older person’s residential care facilities are more vulnerable. This study aims to explore anxiety and depression and associated factors of older people staying in care facilities in Nepal. This is a descriptive cross-sectional quantitative...

Aging is a natural lifelong process ending in death. Many older people are living in poverty. Older people are generally considered dependent on others as they grow older. The purpose of this article is to explore the entrepreneurship activities of Nepalese older adults. Data for this study were collected from the project Help Age International (HA...

The intention of this examination was to present innovative empirical evidence regarding the adaptation of the UCLA Loneliness Scale to Nepal and investigate the validity and reliability of the scale for Nepalese young elderly. The participants in this study were 513 young senior citizens aged in the age range 60 and 74. Among the participants, 243...

Dalit is a name for people belonging to the lowest stratum in a few South Asian Countries. This study examines the situation analysis of elderly Dalits of Nepal. The total respondents were 381 older people. This study found more than half of respondents were residing with their son/daughter-in-law (53.2%). Elderly living with a spouse only was quit...

Anxiety is one of the most common psychological problems in older people and older people staying in geriatric centers are more vulnerable. This study aims to explore Anxiety and associated factors of older people staying in care facilities in Nepal. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 216 older people were recruited from geriat...

Aging is a natural lifelong process until death. The proportions of the older population are increasing rapidly in Nepal too. There are 2.97 million older people in Nepal as of the 2021 census which is a 38.2% increase compared to the previous census of 2011. The proportion of the older population reached 10.21% of the total population of Nepal. Du...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive messaging and collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public...

Rapid population aging is a characteristic of the 21st century, regardless of a nation’s level of development. An aging global population results in a burden in medical and social demographic problems worldwide. Addressing this problem is the highest priority for the care of the aging population worldwide. Healthy aging is an individual lived exper...

Dalit is a name for people belonging to the lowest stratum castes in Nepal and India, previously characterized as untouchable but now this discrimination is illegal. This study examines the socio-economic and health status of older Dalits living in the Jaya Prithvi Municipality of Bajhang district, Nepal. The source of data for this study is based...

Rapid population aging is a characteristic of the 21st century, regardless of a nation's level of development. An aging global population results in a burden in medical and social demographic problems worldwide. Addressing this problem is the highest priority for the care of the aging population worldwide. Healthy aging is an individual lived exper...

With the increasing life expectancy, the social security of older persons is an issue of growing concern. Population aging is taking place rapidly in recent decades in Nepal. This paper discusses the aging situation and social security of Nepalese older people. For the purpose of this paper secondary data and literature is used as found through goo...

Rapid population aging is a characteristic of 21st century, regardless of a nation’s level of development. An ageing global population results burden in medical and social demographic problem worldwide. Addressing this problem is the highest priority for the care of the ageing population worldwide. Healthy ageing is an individual lived experience t...

Objectives: To examine the level of resilience among the frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) in four different Southeast Asian jurisdictions and identify the potential factors that may enhance healthcare workers resilience. Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was carried out among 3,048 eligible healthcare workers in Hong Kong, Nepal, Vietnam...

Population aging is a global phenomenon irrespective of the level of development of the country. But, there is a dearth of research focusing on different issues of the elderly in Nepal. This paper discusses aging trends and some aging issues in Nepal focusing the social security in the changing social context of Nepal. For the purpose of this paper...

The umbrella term "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)" is widely used to denote sexual and gender minority individuals. But the discrimination still exists in the medical community regarding the sexual identity because the knowledge about those rights is insufficient. Further, the skills and techniques to provide social and psychologica...

Importance: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is widespread and may lead to refusal or delay of vaccination, eventually reducing the overall vaccination coverage rate and vaccine effectiveness. Willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination among health care workers (HCWs) is diverse across different jurisdictions. Objective: To assess the COVID-19 vaccin...

At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied ma...

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and str...

Background: Aging has caused changes in the structure of families that raises reflections on the sustainability of the traditional models of family care for older adults. The aim of this article is to analyze the situation of living arrangements of Nepalese older people. Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of structured interview data colle...

The new type of corona virus officially named as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-2 CoV-2) was first reported in Wuhan China in late December 2019. This article aimed at presenting the preventive strategies implemented against COVID-19 by the government of Nepal and the government of Hong Kong and show how the effective policy...

One of the phrases that is widely being used amid this pandemic is ‘Social Distancing’. Yes, the suggestion is good but is the phrase an appropriate one, and most importantly is it conveying a healthy message to us, social beings who can’t survive without other beings? One thing that is shocking is Physical distance can be measured and easily imple...

The world is witnessing a rapid demographic shift towards an aging population. Biologically, aging is gradual decline in the ability of a cell to perform its own function followed by cellular senescence. Aging-induced diseases are the leading causes of deaths which have plagued humankind. The purpose of this article is to discuss how molecular mech...

With South Asia becoming the center of the Corona Pandemic in recent times, Nepal has reached a position where the daily positivity is very high not only in this region but also in the world. Past experience and inability to learn from the rest of the world is biggest weakness and mistake of Nepal. The pandemic situation is behind the control of Ne...

With South Asia becoming the center of the Corona pandemic in recent times, Nepal has reached a position where the daily positivity is very high not only in this region but also in the world. Past experience and inability to learn from the rest of the world is the biggest weakness and mistake of Nepal.

With South Asia becoming the center of the Corona pandemic in recent times, Nepal has reached a position where the daily positivity is very high not only in this region but also in the world. Past experience and inability to learn from the rest of the world is the biggest weakness and mistake of Nepal. https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/co...

Background The abuse and neglect of older people in the family context are emerging as a significant social, as well as a public health concern that is affecting the overall quality of life (QOL) of the elderly. Aims The main objective of this paper was to study the experience of abuse and its relation with QOL of older people in rural Nepal. Met...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) populations belong to a sexual minority group. But the discrimination still exists regarding the sexual identity because the knowledge about those rights among the medical community is insufficient, the skills and techniques to provide social and psychological support are not scientific. The aim of the...

Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic health conditions and is increasingly becoming a major public health problem among the elderly population. As the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is not curable, evaluation of and methods to improve quality of life among such patients is of utmost import...

This is to certify that Dr. Hom Nath Chalise has participated in the Webinar on topic "Designing an effective distance learning program: Basic concepts for faculty" conducted on 23rd December 2020, by Texila American University.

Background: Functional disability among older people is a growing concern for research for the quality of life of older people these days. The purpose of this paper is to present the situation of functional disability among Nepali older people living in a rural area.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in a rural area of Nepal. The...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had affected both developed and developing countries too. The first case in Nepal was confirmed on 23 January 2021. It was also the first recorded case of COVID-19 in South Asia. Nepal reported its first COVID-19 death on May 16. At the end of October, the number of death stood 937 and 1126 on 9 November. In Sept...

Rapid population aging is a global phenomenon, regardless of a nation’s level of development. Population aging is also taking place rapidly in Nepal. Different studies show that many older persons are suffering from different types of chronic diseases. Although more than 80% of seniors live with their children, nearly two thirds of older adults are...

Japanese are enjoying the longest life expectancy in the world. Due to increasing longevity and declining fertility, country has an economic pressure how to sustain the financing the pension system and long term care of elderly. Japan has a well managed social security system in the world. Social security system is based on individual’s participati...

Editorial: COVID-19 is most likely to be lethal to older adults with pre-existing health conditions. Maintaining good health through health promotion activities and a healthy lifestyle play crucial roles in minimizing immune system decline and maximizing disease resistance. People who age healthily are less at risk. Individuals, families, societies...

Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease similar form of pneumonia/ SARS-CoV-2- impacting deadly globally. The main objective of this article is to analyze the studies and gather of the current information aimed at COVID-19 and analyze the situation of Nepal. We summarized the published articles from the web pages, Journals, Go...

Background: Today, people are living longer than ever before due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and public health. Longevity has also resulted in a caregiving burden in the family living together. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the situation of the elderly caregiving burden in Nepal. Methods: This is a c...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a devastating global health crisis. Without a vaccine or effective medication, the best hope for mitigating virus transmission is collective behavior change and support for public health interventions (e.g., physical distancing, physical hygiene, and endorsement of health policies). In a large-scale international co...

Population ageing is an issue of worldwide importance. People are living longer due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and public health. While the COVID-19 pandemic has significant global impacts, in many countries the elderlyface threats and challenges that are unique and disproportionately severe. One such threat...

Population ageing is an issue of worldwide importance. People are living longer due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and public health. While the COVID-19 pandemic has significant global impacts, in many countries the elderlyface threats and challenges that are unique and disproportionately severe. One such threat...

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Elderly Mental Health Issues: Opportunities and Challenges during and after COVID_19

COVID-19 is spreading all over the world. The Latest data shows cases of COVID-19 are increasing rapidly in developing countries. South Asia is also one of such regions where the cases are increasing rapidly. South Asia is less prepared to fight with COVID-19 pandemic due to poverty, poor health care facilities and lowest number of physicians per c...

The world is witnessing a rapid demographic shift towards an aging population. People are living longer due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and sanitary conditions. According to the 2011 census data, Nepal had a total of 2,154,003 elderly 60 years and above which accounts for 8.1 percent of the total population of...

The global population is rapidly aging. People are living longer due to advances in education, technology, medicine, food distribution, and public health. While the COVID-19 pandemic has significant global impacts, in many countries the elderly face threats and challenges that are unique and disproportionately severe. One such threat is that aging...

Age specific infection shows majority (61%) were from age group 21-40 years and sixty years and older accounts less than four percent. If we look the trend of other countries, majority of people who infected from COVID-19 are older adults. This trend is found just opposite in Nepal.Further, most of the people who dies from COVID-19 are young people...

Nepal is at a high risk of increasing COVID-19 cases through people who recently returned to Nepal from other countries. The health care system of Nepal is fragile, and the country is not having the necessary infrastructure to cope with an increasing number of infections and pandemic situations.

South Asia is one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions. The health care facilities of this region are also very weak. Each of South Asia’s eight countries has one of the lowest numbers of physicians per capita. As the data show, the numbers of COVID-19 cases and casualties are rising sharply on a daily basis and are estimated to be much...

The current situation in Nepal must be regarded through extremely serious lenses. With mass testing, more cases of COVID-19 begin to emerge. As a country with a fragile healthcare system, and not having the necessary infrastructure to cope with an increasing number of infections, the country is not prepared for a pandemic. Further, unless the borde...

This study shows quite a high number of older persons living in old age homes have eye problems but there seems that they are not aware of the problem. Similarly, many elderly are also not aware of dental problems and still, nearly 24% of the elderly use their finger to brush teeth. So Nepal needs more public health related dental and eye problem a...

Introduction: Aging is a global issue of importance. But, there are not sufficient researches on the abuse of older persons in the least developed country and Nepal is also one such a country. Objective: This paper tries to explore the situation of abuse of older persons among community-living older persons. Methodology: This is a cross-section...

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Most developing countries are ageing at unprecedented rates, yet they are relatively under-studied regarding the demographic and health status of the older population. This in turn inhibits appropriate, positive societal responses. This study presents the socio-demographic and health status of older adults in Nepal. Methods: This study is a seconda...

Active Ageing : Lesson to learn from an American Lady https://baahrakhari.com/news-details/214733/2019-09-09 This article is based on talk and my experience while living i Boone, North Carolina USA.

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The demographic dividend (or window of opportunity) is the period during which a country's population experiences age structures that are highly favourable for development. Greater proportion of population becomes young and working age group. This cuts spending on dependents and spurring economic growth. Demographic dividend has importance in the n...

With the worldwide increase in life expectancy, insecurities in life are increasing generally to old aged people which have never been known before. Universal Old Age Allowance distributed in cash to the elderly 70 years and above is the main social security system provided by Nepal Government to the Nepalese elderly. The main objective of this art...

Background and Objective: Ageing is a global public health concern. With the increase in elderly population, the number of old age homes is also increasing in Nepal. The main objective of this study was to compare the health status of elderly living in two complexes of old age homes: private and government. Materials and Methods: This is a cross se...

This paper gives the concept of aging for the beginners, for the teachers or any one interested in aging

This is a interview based article published on 761khabar.com Focuses about how academic activities can be linked with development in the context of Nepal.

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: Ageing is a global public health concern. With the increase in elderly population, the number of old age homes is also increasing in Nepal. The main objective of this study was to compare the health status of elderly living in two complexes of old age homes: private and government. Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive stud...

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This paper was presented on request of Judges' Society of Nepal. It has introduced about aging, typology of aging, and different problems encountered with aging specially focussing on health. Finally it suggest for active aging.

Quality of Life (QOL) of elderly is an important issue to be discussed with worldwide increasing elderly population. The main objective of this research paper is to assess the QOL of Nepali elderly in rural Nepal. This is a crosssectional study carried out in 2017 in Kailali district, western part of Nepal. Total sample size for this study was 547....

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This Nepali article describes activities Nepalese in Hong Kong. It is based on my observation while visiting Chinese Unuversity of Hong Kong while attending a conference. I went around with Nepalese communities and get chance to learn about them

p>Ageing population is attributable to the growing trend of diabetes mellitus. Diabetic patients are three times greater risk of developing tuberculosis. The review aims to describe the state of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus comorbidity, risk factors for the comorbidity from the perspective of the ageing in Nepal. It is a systematic narrative...

उमेरीनु (बुढ्यौली ) उमेरीनु (बुढो हुनु) भनेको के हो बुढ्यौली का प्रकार मधुमेह रोग मधुमेह रोग भनेको के हो मधुमेह रोगका प्रकार मधुमेह को रोकठाम

•Low Quality of Life among Nepalese cancer patients •Majority of the patients are distressed by chemotherapy. •Significant difference was found between duration of disease and psychosocial aspects of the patient. •Significant mean difference between age and psychosocial aspects of the breast cancer p

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Abstract Introduction: Very little is known about elderly parent’s quality of life after their children’s out migration. Objective: Main objective of this study is to assess the impact of out migration of children on the elderly parents staying at old age homes. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried out in Kathmandu valley. It has used b...

The number and size of elderly homes are increasing in urban areas in Nepal, indicating that the number of elderly people living in old age homes is increasing. Anecdotal information indicates that some of the elderly residents experienced abuse prior to their residence in old age homes. The main objective of this article is to explore the nature o...

With the worldwide increase in life expectancy, insecurities in life are increasing generally to old aged people which have never been known before. Universal Old Age Allowance distributed in cash to the elderly 70 years and above is the main social security system provided by Nepal Government to the Nepalese elderly. The main objective of this art...

Quality of Life (QOL) of elderly is an important issue to be discussed with worldwide increasing elderly population. The main objective of this research paper is to assess the QOL of Nepali elderly in rural Nepal. This is a cross- sectional study carried out in 2017 in Kailali district, western part of Nepal. Total sample size for this study was 54...

Sleep disturbances are common among older adults. The objective of this study is to determine whether the activity of inside walking by older individuals residing in the Old age home improves the quality of their sleep. Pashupati Briddhaashram (old age home) is the facility selected for this study. Sampling consisted of roughly 230 older adults who...

Japan's population is aging rapidly. Recently population 65+ of Japan reached 28% of the total population. On the other hand population has started to shrink since 2008. This paper tries to focus to explore what are the current major problems Japan is facing and what the developing country like Nepal need to learn for the management of her senior c...

Sleep disturbances are common among older adults. The objective of this study is to determine whether the activity of inside walking by older individuals residing in the old age home improves the quality of their sleep. Pashupati Briddhaashram (old age home) from Kathmandu is the facility selected for this study. This study uses a pre- post quasi...