A Geographical Analysis of Old Age Homes in Mysuru City

K L Sowmyashree

doi:10.53989/bu.ga.v10i2.6

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v10i2.6

Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 30-32

Original Article

A Geographical Analysis of Old Age Homes in Mysuru City

K L Sowmyashree¹

¹ Guest Lecturer, DOS in Geography, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Received Date:21 July 2021, Accepted Date:10 October 2021

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The present study examined the distribution patterns of old age homes in Mysuru city based on secondary information collected from the corporation, census, etc. Simple statistical techniques (GIS) like nearest neighbor analysis, buffer analysis, overlay, etc have been used for data analysis. The study revealed that old age homes in the city have been randomly distributed and highly concentrated in 2 to 4 km from the city Centre, where population concentration is more along with better accessibility of road network. This indicates that the majority of the old age homes are concentrated outside the city, which might suggest to the planners to provide good and necessary policies and programs.

Keywords: Old age homes, Distribution patterns, Nearest neighbor analysis, Buffer analysis

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Copyright

© 2021 Sowmyashree. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka