UniversePG l www.universepg.com 218 Needs Assessment and Survival Pattern of Elderly People in Rural Bangladesh Rehena Parvin 1 *, Mst. Tahmina Sultana 1 , Mahmudul Hasan 1 , and Md. Mokter Ali 1 1 Department of Sociology and Social Work, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Mirzanagar, Savar, Dhaka-1344, Bangladesh. *Correspondence: rehenapeya@gmail.com (Rehena Parvin, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Mirzanagar, Savar, Dhaka-1344, Bangladesh). ABSTRACT At present, aging is a buzzword that is recognized as a global issue. Bangladesh recently experiences a significant number of people who have faced many types of challenges due to its huge number of elderly people. It is the multidimensional process of physical, mental, and social change, both males & females aged 60 + years. Aging is now a global problem and an upcoming threat for developing countries like Bangladesh. Major social problems of elder people in a rural area are their adjustment in their surroundings, special needs, care giving and care receiving, neglect and harassment. This research aimed to know the needs assessment and survival pattern of elderly people in a rural area. The study has been conducted qualitative and quantitative in nature with a sample size of 120. Necessary data were collected through structured interview schedules, observation, questionnaires, and case study techniques. The survey findings indicate that elderly people are lack access to educational facilities, agricultural resources, decision-making process, sufficient family income, basic health care and they have faced social and physical problems such as lack of social security, personal security, burden feeling, loneliness, special services, heart disease, diabetics, sleeping disturbances, urinary and stomach problem, eye, hearing, dental problem. The government should have a social welfare policy to give special health and medical services through separate wards and units for elderly people. Keywords: Needs assessments, Survival pattern, Elderly people, Socio-economic condition, and Bangladesh. INTRODUCTION: A changing population structure is occurring all over the world with a great number of older people. Human being passes his life span through five stages such as infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Old age is the most miserable situations in a natural process of life and nobody can avoid it. A de- clining trend in both fertility and mortality rates has in- creased average life expectancy. At present, the ageing people have been increasing as an alarming rate. In Bangladesh, 60+ years or older people are now 6% and it will be turn over 9% by 2025 (Wikipedia). The older people are in worse condition due to changing pattern of social saturation, poor health care, and health seek- ing behavior, illiteracy and insufficient income in Bangladesh. Specially, the older people lead a miser- able life in rural community with minimum satis- faction of fundamental needs and rights along with financial exploitations and familial negligence. This research is mainly attempt to explore the needs assess- ments and survival patterns regarding fundamental rights and satisfactions of elderly people in rural area. It explores the demographic and socio-economic status, their various problems (Physical and Psycho- social), the attitude of family members, services received from government organizations and non- government organizations. At present, Bangladesh Government has been passed a welfare Act named as Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Legal Studies, 3(6), 218-229, 2021 Publisher homepage: www.universepg.com, ISSN: 2707-4668 (Online) & 2707-465X (Print) https://doi.org/10.34104/ajssls.021.02180229 Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Legal Studies Journal homepage: www.universepg.com/journal/ajssls