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Factors Affecting the Life Satisfaction of Older People with Care Needs Who Live at Home

The number of older people is increasing rapidly, and the number of older people with care needs who live at home is also increasing in Japan. Maintaining their life satisfaction has been a primary challenge. This study aimed to identify factors affecting the life satisfaction of older people with c...

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Autores principales: Misu, Yuka, Hayashi, Shintaro, Iwai, Nobuhiko, Yamamoto, Taisei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36286220
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050117
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author Misu, Yuka
Hayashi, Shintaro
Iwai, Nobuhiko
Yamamoto, Taisei
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description The number of older people is increasing rapidly, and the number of older people with care needs who live at home is also increasing in Japan. Maintaining their life satisfaction has been a primary challenge. This study aimed to identify factors affecting the life satisfaction of older people with care needs. The study was conducted among older people using homecare services; 126 participants (mean age, 79.33 ± 7.51 years, 54 male) were included in the analysis. Logistic regression analysis with adjustment for age, sex, and economic status was conducted with life satisfaction as the objective variable and the Japanese version of occupational gaps questionnaire (OGQ-J), sense of coherence, functional independence measure, and environmental factors as explanatory variables. The variables that significantly affected life satisfaction were the OGQ-J (p = 0.0352, OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.81–0.99) and environmental factors (p = 0.0083, OR 4.41, 95% CI 1.52–14.11). This study’s results indicate the importance of focusing on environmental factors and facilitating the participation of older people with care needs in activities they want to do to maintain and improve their life satisfaction.
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spelling pubmed-96016342022-10-27 Factors Affecting the Life Satisfaction of Older People with Care Needs Who Live at Home Misu, Yuka Hayashi, Shintaro Iwai, Nobuhiko Yamamoto, Taisei Geriatrics (Basel) Article The number of older people is increasing rapidly, and the number of older people with care needs who live at home is also increasing in Japan. Maintaining their life satisfaction has been a primary challenge. This study aimed to identify factors affecting the life satisfaction of older people with care needs. The study was conducted among older people using homecare services; 126 participants (mean age, 79.33 ± 7.51 years, 54 male) were included in the analysis. Logistic regression analysis with adjustment for age, sex, and economic status was conducted with life satisfaction as the objective variable and the Japanese version of occupational gaps questionnaire (OGQ-J), sense of coherence, functional independence measure, and environmental factors as explanatory variables. The variables that significantly affected life satisfaction were the OGQ-J (p = 0.0352, OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.81–0.99) and environmental factors (p = 0.0083, OR 4.41, 95% CI 1.52–14.11). This study’s results indicate the importance of focusing on environmental factors and facilitating the participation of older people with care needs in activities they want to do to maintain and improve their life satisfaction. MDPI 2022-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9601634/ /pubmed/36286220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050117 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/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36286220
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050117
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