A cross-sectional community based study was conducted in two different groups of elderly population (60 year and above) in Dibrugarh District of Assam, India during the study period from 2002 to 2003. The study comprised of 523 geriatric persons from both the settings. The first group consisted of 293 (male - 181 and female - 112) elderly persons from an urban setting among a population of about lakhs. Four wards and two adjoining localities were selected randomly for the study. The second groups of 230 (male - 101 and female - 129) geriatric persons were drawn from a community predominantly engaged in tea industry mainly as manual labourer. The population of.
