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People aged over 60 years constituted about 3.5% of the total population with more than half (55.6%) belonging to the middle class and another one third to the lower class. Elderly people made up 5.7% of all out-patient consultations and 6.9% of all in-patient admissions. Hypertension, peptic ulcer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, pneumonia, skin diseases and anaemia were common among these people. Only 14% of the elderly people in this rural area were insured, but these insured people constituted about half (48%) of the in-patient and 90% of the out-patient elderly patients. Thus insurance has significantly increased their health care access ( p &lt;0.05). Provision of free health care, drugs at a cheaper price, services at their doorsteps, free ambulance service and allocation of old age allowance were some of their notable demands. 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