The growing number of older people is an emerging challenge for Bangladesh because of experiencing age structuraltransition. Older people are vulnerable to various health problems as various geriatric health problems come naturally with oldage. Until now a very little attention has been paid on this issue in Bangladesh. The objective of this study is to assess the selfreported knowledge status of the people at Modhukhali. For this purpose a cross sectional study was conducted. With the aid ofa preformed interview schedule data was collected from a purposively selected sample of 342 respondents. It was revealedfrom the study that most of the respondents, about 85.38% were Muslims. Literacy rate of rural people of Modhukhali waspoor. The result indicates that about 39.76% people were illiterate, but most of the respondents were aware of the majorgeriatric health problems.

The study revealed that about 92.98% people knows about cataract, 94.44% people knows about hearing defect with theiraging. About 91.52% people know about hypertension & cardiovascular system related diseases. Majority of people 72.80%has knowledge about developing cancer after 40 years . Most of the people, about 76% has knowledge about Diabetes mellitus& it's consequences .Though the majority of the people are illiterate, they have a good knowledge about the common healthproblems occurring in old age. It may be the result of attending health education program already running in this area. Datashows that about 73.09% people attended the health education program.

The Geriatric health services of the country has been improved by some years but yet there are some lack in rural areas. Thehealth education program about geriatric health should be run in rural areas. The young & middle aged people, who might bethe sufferer of these health related problems should be aware before they get the disease. The number of health workers shouldbe increased. Govt. should allocate budget and organize skillful training facility to these entire health service providers. On thispurpose there is also need for strong supervision and monitoring of the geriatric health care services throughout the country.