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Item The role of social worker in Elderly care(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sirikumara, H.K.S.; Keerthi, J.K.P.U.Elderly care is becoming a complex problem in modern society. Due to growing population of the elders, it is difficult to take care of them by their own children. Therefore in this context, the government has to take responsibility for the well being of them. The objective of this study was to analyze the role of social workers in elderly care selecting two elderly care institutions in Kegalle and Galla districts. I applied survey method and forwarded questionnaire and held interviews with focus group discussions. In addition, I asked some questions from social workers and their input for this study was very valuable. In fact, as social workers, they had to look after their needs and necessities of the elders, to change the attitude of the elders and to change their mind set. Social workers did their role in relation to above elder care institutions. In this context the social workers did their duty as follows, i.e. The responsibility of the social worker is how to protect the elders within the community and family,to guide and train the persons who are protecting the elders,to find out how to work with elders and how to keep an interpersonal relationship with elders. The role of the social worker is to give advice how to spend a successful life by the elders. The duty of the social worker is to inform to the society about the value of the elders. It is necessary to provide employment opportunity for the elders. Despite their valuable services on behalf of the elders, I believed that the government should provide some facilities to encourage their activities.Item Climate Change Research in Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Nianthi, K.W.G.R.Climate is a dynamic component of the environment, which has a direct and an indirect influence on man and his activities. Most commonly, climate is known as the long-term average weather condition prevailing over an area. Climate is dynamic in many respects; for example, it varies in time and space, and changes occur over sufficiently long period of time. This paper summarises past and present research of the climatic changes of Sri Lanka. A few climates related scientists have started descriptive level studies since late 18th century. A number of studies have been carried out on the climate change in Sri Lanka since later part of the last century. Statistical analyses have been started in the 1950s. After this period the scope and the depth of climate change studies have increased. Climate change in Sri Lanka is mainly characterised by the temporal and spatial variations of temperature as well as rainfall conditions. In general, all the climate change studies reveal that the annual average surface air temperature has been rising in all parts of Sri Lanka. The positive temperature trends are noticeable during the Northeast Monsoon and the First Inter-Monsoon period. On the contrary, rainfall has been decreasing in most of the stations during recent period. Precipitation in the Southwest Monsoon decreased in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka since the last century. Some of the studies have found that the negative anomalies of rainfall are evident on the western slopes of the Central Highlands in Sri Lanka. All annual temperature series in Sri Lanka is correlated with the global temperature anomalies and the agreement during the last decades is very striking. As far as the rainfall is concerned the observations of a decreasing trend in Sri Lanka corresponds to the global trends. Future predictions on climate change will be briefly focused in this paper.