Investigation on the Self-supporting Ability of the Elderly in Community

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10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Self-supporting ability, Elderly, Community.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the current status of self-supporting ability of the elderly in community, and compare the elderly people's self-supporting ability on the basis of different demographic characteristics. Methods: General demographic characteristics scale and self-supporting ability for elderly people were used to investigate 316 elderly people. Results: The total score of self-supporting ability in the elderly was (170.52±28.39), the score differences in whether living alone, number of chronic diseases, whether had any medical personnel in family, whether the body had dysfunction had statistically significant(p<0.05).Conclusion: The self-supporting ability for elderly was at medium level, relevant people should take targeted measures to improve their ability. So as to promote physical and psychological health for the elderly.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei Meng
AU  - Yu-Jin Liu
AU  - Yu Zhang
AU  - Hao-Yu Zhang
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Investigation on the Self-supporting Ability of the Elderly in Community
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 512
EP  - 515
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.82
DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.82
ID  - Meng2019/07
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