TAILIEUCHUNG - Health-related quality of life of elderly living in nursing home and homes in a district of Iran: Implications for policy makers

For middle-aged people, disability is defined in terms of ability to work or do housework. For children, disability is the inability to participate in mainstream education. An important difference between functioning loss and disability is the potential influence of the external environment. Although in practice it may sometimes be difficult to clearly separate the two concepts, functioning loss is defined as a functioning deficit in an individual; disability on the other hand is an inability to perform within the environment. Disability can be affected by conditions external to the person. For instance, moving to a house without stairs or a home with a walk-in shower might allow someone to. | 2782 Indian Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 5 No. 5 May 2012 ISSN 0974- 6846 Health-related quality of life of elderly living in nursing home and homes in a district of Iran Implications for policy makers J. Heydari1 S. Khani2 and Z. Shahhosseini 2 1 Department of Psychiatric Nursing Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran 2Department of Midwifery Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran zshahhosseini@ Abstract As the life expectancy increases the importance of elderly people s quality of life becomes more apparent. The present investigation is aimed to assess the health-related Quality of life of elderly people living in two settings i residents in a nursing home and ii elderly people living at homes in a district of North Iran. The study was conducted as a crosssectional analytical study. Data was collected by face to face interviewing technique using the Iranian version of the short form health survey questionnaire SF-36 and a form designed by the researchers for recording sociodemographic characteristics. The data are drawn from 220 elderly 60 years of age sampled from both settings. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The average scores for several domains including total physical health total mental health and overall health total SF-36 score were less than 50 which can be interpreted as a less desirable level of health-related quality of life in Iranian elderly people. Residents living at homes scored better in all domains of SF-36. Multiple regression analysis indicated that residency marital status and education had a significant coefficient for total SF-36 health related quality of life of elderly people in one city in Iran particularly those in nursing homes is inadequate. There is a need to design programs to increase elderly people s interaction with others and establish social networks for them and opined that these may enhance a sense of positive quality of life among the .

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