Chronic poverty among the elderly in uganda

The elderly are usually deemed to be those aged 60 and above and poverty studies have singled them out as one of the groups experiencing deprivation because of their stage in the lifecycle (World Bank, 2000). Poverty is usually viewed as lack of income - expenditure or consumption; lack of capabilities and freedoms – both intrinsic and instrumental (e.g. income, education, health, human rights, civil rights, etc.) that permit people to achieve what they want to do and want they want to experience; and a form of absolute or relative deprivation (Hulme, et al; 2001).