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Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care
For the disabled, paying attention to their health status is the starting point to discovering their survival problems, while meeting their care needs is the end point to solving their survival problems. As the country with the largest number of disabled elderly in the world, how to ensure this grou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811371 |
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author | Tang, Qi Yuan, Min Wu, Wenhui Wu, Huanyun Wang, Cao Chen, Gang Li, Chengyue Lu, Jun |
author_facet | Tang, Qi Yuan, Min Wu, Wenhui Wu, Huanyun Wang, Cao Chen, Gang Li, Chengyue Lu, Jun |
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description | For the disabled, paying attention to their health status is the starting point to discovering their survival problems, while meeting their care needs is the end point to solving their survival problems. As the country with the largest number of disabled elderly in the world, how to ensure this group could obtain appropriate home care is a major public health issue facing China. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study from October to December 2020 to explore the basic characteristics and health status of disabled elderly in different types of care who are living at home in 37 streets in Shanghai, as well as the individual care needs and its relevance. We observed the significant differences in the number of diagnoses (p = 0.03), smoking (p = 0.009), drinking (p = 0.016), exercise (p = 0.001), activity of daily living (p < 0.0001), and the quality of life (p < 0.0001) across care types. The care needs of the disabled elderly are diversified, of which a vast majority of them have not been fully guaranteed. The urgent need for improving the identification accuracy of care needs of disabled elderly, as well as the development of elaborate and personalized care programs for them, is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-95173952022-09-29 Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care Tang, Qi Yuan, Min Wu, Wenhui Wu, Huanyun Wang, Cao Chen, Gang Li, Chengyue Lu, Jun Int J Environ Res Public Health Article For the disabled, paying attention to their health status is the starting point to discovering their survival problems, while meeting their care needs is the end point to solving their survival problems. As the country with the largest number of disabled elderly in the world, how to ensure this group could obtain appropriate home care is a major public health issue facing China. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study from October to December 2020 to explore the basic characteristics and health status of disabled elderly in different types of care who are living at home in 37 streets in Shanghai, as well as the individual care needs and its relevance. We observed the significant differences in the number of diagnoses (p = 0.03), smoking (p = 0.009), drinking (p = 0.016), exercise (p = 0.001), activity of daily living (p < 0.0001), and the quality of life (p < 0.0001) across care types. The care needs of the disabled elderly are diversified, of which a vast majority of them have not been fully guaranteed. The urgent need for improving the identification accuracy of care needs of disabled elderly, as well as the development of elaborate and personalized care programs for them, is needed. MDPI 2022-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9517395/ /pubmed/36141656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811371 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tang, Qi Yuan, Min Wu, Wenhui Wu, Huanyun Wang, Cao Chen, Gang Li, Chengyue Lu, Jun Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title | Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title_full | Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title_fullStr | Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title_short | Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care |
title_sort | health status and individual care needs of disabled elderly at home in different types of care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811371 |
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