Quality of life of elderly person in aged-care at home and influencing factors in Shanghai Minhang district / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveTo understand the quality of life and influencing factors of elderly person in agedcare at home.MethodsThe elderly person in aged-care at home in 3 towns and a street of Shanghai Minhang District were enrolled by stratified cluster sampling.To investigate quality of life for elderly person by adopting SF-36 form.Meanwhile,to find out the principal influencing factors on quality of life by adopting both single-factor and multiple-factor analysis.ResultsThe score of life quality of senior citizen in local was as following43.63 ± 30.04 (Physical Function),55.57 ± 48.96 (Role Physical),81.75 ± 20.49 (Bodily Pain),42.07 ± 18.84 ( General Health),58.57 ± 18.96 (Vitality),66.94 ± 26.79 ( Social Function),73.33 ± 43.33 ( Role Emotional),70.92 ± 19.02 ( Mental Health),61.60 ± 21.06 ( Weighted average).There were two aspects of the factors that influencing elderly persons'the quality of lifedisease-related (coronary heart disease,cerebrovascular accident) and non-disease-related ( whether to go out for a walk every day,loneliness,living space,gender and on the current life satisfaction etc).ConclusionQuality of life of elderly person in aged-care at home is relatively low,special in the general health and physical function dimensions.The controllable factors are diseases,whether to go out for a walk every day,loneliness,on the current life satisfaction etc.