Survey on health status and community care needs of the elderly in Chongqing urban area / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To learn the health status and community care needs of the elderly in Chongqing urban area ,and provide a basis for the future development of geriatric nurse in community .Methods SF‐36 scales and a self‐designed questionnaire were used to know the health status and community care needs of 1 005 elderly in Chongqing .Results The incidence rate of chronic com‐munity elderly was 79 .69% .SF‐36 scale total score was (71 .76 ± 12 .85) ,physical health was (72 .46 ± 17 .56) ,and mental health was (73 .29 ± 16 .87) .Multiple regression showed that number of chronic cases ,economic status ,age ,lifestyle were unhealthy situa‐tion factors .Community care needs of the top five in turn were regular inspection ,care and community experts ,high‐quality commu‐nity nurses ,health lectures ,and first aid care .Multivariate Logistic regression analysis of elderly community care needs revealed that sex (X1 ) ,occupation (X2 ) ,economic conditions (X3 ) ,inspection (X4 ) ,community care to understand the situation(X5 ) were fac‐tors ,Regression predict modelP=1/[1+Exp∑ (-2 .155+0 .612X1 -0 .121X2 +0 .173X3 +0 .211X4 +1 .107X5 )] .Conclusion Communities need to strengthen regular physical check for the elderly ,pay more attention to elderly male ,strengthen chronic dis‐ease management ,pension and health ,nutrition and health promotion ,enhance the training of personnel for community aged care , and change community care models .