Health and social status of Saudis retirees: A descriptive field study

Abstract

This research aims to follow up ageing Saudis, their health and social status after retirement, and the main problems facing. The study sample was 650 people, 535 males and 115 females. About 95 % of them married, 84 % secondary educational level or less, and 89 % of the sample were working in governmental or military sector, finally 61 % of them retired due to age of 60 for civilian and 45 for military where 39 % early retired especially for females. Although the overall health status has not changed before and after retirement but health status changed between both gender after retirement for females against males. Also the social characteristics before and after retirement for five main social problem indicate the existence of differences between males and females in the sense of social problems in favor of males and females understand more a sense of the problems, as well as increased sense of problems after retirement.