Old age involves a number of other changes that might contribute to declines in selfesteem, including spousal loss, decreased social support, declining physical health, cognitive impairments. Main objective of the study is to measure impact of ageing on selfesteem of older people and to find the factors affecting the self-esteem of older people. Self -esteem of the respondents was measured on three different aspects- Performance selfesteem, Social self-esteem and Appearance self-esteem. Result indicated that nearly half of the respondents had medium and high level of Performance self-esteem and medium level of Social self-esteem. Majority of the respondents had medium level of Appearance selfesteem followed by low level of Appearance self-esteem. It was found that the respondents who have higher level of education had high level of performance self –esteem.
