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The elderly population is increasing day by day. So it is essential to attend to the health status of this age group for their health promotion and disease prevention. Accordingly having a clear definition of health concept in aged people is necessary. In this study, a comprehensive and in-depth narrative review was carried out by searching the data bases of SCOPUS, PUBMED, PROQUEST, SCIENCE DIRECT, ISC, IRANDOC, MAGIRAN with the key words of "health, the elderly wellbeing, health measurement, health assessment and health status" alongside with the words. "elderly, aging, old people" without limitation of years. the main approaches toward the concept of health according to available literature were medical and functional models. The medical models holds that physical examination is required for determining the health and wellbeing of elderly people and their health-related needs and the functional model proposes that the things expressed by an elderly can be the best index for their health status and their required supportive systems. It has been indicated that the perceived health by elderly people is a global and useful index which shows their health level and also interacts with social and biological components. The exploration of health and wellbeing among elderly people has a more mental nature than other age groups. Consequently, the investigation of wellbeing among the elderly must not only be restricted to its medical aspects
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Aged , Health Status , Review Literature as TopicABSTRACT
The present study aimed to compare the habits and features of obese [BMI>25] and normal [BM<25] individuals and express a method to ameliorate the life styles using a cross-sectional experiment. Two groups of case [n=110] and control [n=100] subjects were randomly selected. The samples were then divided into two groups [obese and normal], respectively. For each group, BMI was calculated. It the obtained BMI was >25 kg/m[2] then it was designated in the case group [obese]. Samples with BMI between 2-25 kg/m[2] were assigned into the control [normal] group. The miller-Smith life style questionnaires were used for both groups. Data were analyzed using Chi-square and t-tests. No significant differences were found between the two groups tested in terms of the mean age, gender, level of education, marital status insurance, the length of sleep during 24h, cigarette smoking and losing job or spouse. However, a significant relation was found in using vegetables, sausage, fried potatoes, enriched breads, low fat milk, low salt, candies and chocolates [P<0.05]. The present study suggests that on way to control obesity and prevent diseases is to ameliorate the life styles with education to people