NGHIÊN CỨU THỰC TRẠNG CHẤT LƯỢNG CUỘC SỐNG VÀ MỘT SỐ YẾU TỐ LIÊN QUAN Ở NGƯỜI CAO TUỔI TẠI THỊ XÃ BÌNH MINH, TỈNH VĨNH LONG NĂM 2017

Abstract

Background: There have been many studies on elderly people in Viet Nam, but most of them are currently concentrating on health characteristics, disease patterns, management and health care for the elderly. Quality of the elderly’s life has not been much attentive. Objectives: To describe the current status of quality of life and some factors relating to quality of elderly people’s life in Binh Minh town, Vinh Long province in 2017. Materials and Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study on 360 elderly people in Binh Minh town, Vinh Long province. Data were collected from the answers of direct household interview questions. Results: The elderly with high quality of life: 15.8%, average quality of life: 79.7% and low quality of life: 4.4%. There was a correlation between the quality of life of the elderly and the sex (p<0.05), educational background (p<0.05), marital status (p<0.05), illness status (p<0.05), chronic disease status (p<0.001). Conclusion: The quality of the elderly’s life in our study is moderate, it is necessary to strengthen the health care for the elderly especially the elderly who are in difficult circumstances but without social welfare, and to mobilize the elderly for a health check twice a year.