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Ageing is a normal universal, progressive and deleterious phenomenon of life. Those who are young today they will become old tomorrow. Nobody can beat this process of life cycle. There was an era when elder people were considered the fulcrum of family and all the members grow up surrounding them. They were considered the binding block of the society. Because of globalization as the cohesiveness of the family is reducing similarly position of the elderly in the family is also under massive stress. But it doesn't means that roads are all blocked for them those once upon a time considered the real asset of the society. World in twenty first century has been facing many transitions: epidemiological transition, nutritional transition, demographic transition etc. World health Organization (WHO) had coined the theme of active aging on the eve of World health day in 2012. Elderly should not be consider as a burden on society rather active aging will make them economically, socially as well as culturally health and productive. Many terms as been cited by different researcher for aging people: “old age”, “elderly”, “senior citizen”, “old adult” etc.1 In 1938, the term “senior citizen” was first invented by Isaac Hirschfeld in a political campaign.2 Science then many countries has globally defined different age group for senior citizen.