A field study on the phenomenon of aging and cultural foundations of the attitudes towards elderly people in Turkey: Van-Muğla cases

This is subject of study and the World as well as hosting an important socialy reality of aging case with changing demographics and thein creasing elderly population ratio in Turkey. Aging is The functional, physical and cognitive deficits and decreases seen in individual stduetot thein crease in calendar age. Theprogress of scientific and technologic ald developments and gaining importance in ourage has changed the demographics structure of the society. The drop in the birth rate and lengthening of the human life span has in creased the in creasingly elderly population in Turkey. İt has there foreentered between the rapidly aging countries in Turkey as in other çountries pf the World. Research, Turkey, described as thee astern and more cametot the fore with tradional attitudes and values which are definend as West Van province and the modern, secular will take place do minanted by Muğla province of life style. The study, Turkey's two mojor provinces of Van and Muğla cultural leyel perspevctives of individual sliying in old age, meaning that they up load to old age are reaimed at addressingperceptipons and attitudes about the elderly. Perceptions and attitudes towards the elderly in Turkey within the scope of the research were studied through quantitatiye and qualitatiye data.