Volume : 7, Issue : 12, December - 2018

Perimenoapuse: Does it affect quality of life among middle aged women?

Vishranti Bhagwan Giri, Prof. Vaishali Taksande

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">Quality of life&nbsp;is the general&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-being" title="Well-being" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">well-being</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life. It observes life satisfaction, including everything from physical health, family, education, employment, wealth, safety, and security to freedom, religious beliefs, and the environment. It has a wide range of contexts, including the fields of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_development" title="International development" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">international development</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">, healthcare, politics and employment. It is important not to mix up the concept of quality of life with a more recent growing area of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life_(healthcare)" title="Quality of life (healthcare)" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">health related quality</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;"> of life.[1]</span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In reviewing quality of life research it is evident that different studies have used widely different definitions and methods of assessing quality of life.[2]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%">^{<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>}<span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Today, with increasing life expectancy and life span, women spend one-third of their lifetime after menopause. Menopause is an adaptation process during which women go through a new biological state. This process is accompanied by many biological and psychosocial changes.[3]</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>^{<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:MR">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>}<span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;&#10;mso-bidi-language:MR">&nbsp;&nbsp;A large number of women all over the world suffer from perimenopausal symptoms and the problem cannot be ignored. Education, creating awareness and providing suitable intervention to improve the quality of life are important social and medical issues which are to be necessary. [4]</span></p>