| Summary: | 碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 健康產業管理學系長期照護組 在職專班 === 99 === Background：The elderly living alone has been defined as one of the health care high risk population groups by World Health Organization. In recent years, changes in family structure and function to promote family care reduces workforce,elderly living alone population continues to increase dramatically. When good health, the elderly living alone does not create problems. However, when poor health status of elderly people living alone, if they can’t get any care and assistance, that is facing a crisis.
Aim：The aim of this study was to understand their characteristics, health status ,care needs, and the relationship of health and care needs of Miaoli County elderly people living alone.
Design：Used by Miaoli County long term care management center’s”elderly living alone visit questionnaire in Miaoli County,2009” database, a total of 212 samples to SPSS 12 for Windows software package to encode archiving and statistical analysis,with percent、mean、standard deviation、independent samples t test、one way analysis of variance、pearson’s correlation coefficient and the chi-square test.
The results were as follow: The elderly living alone in Miaoli County, The majority of general household,female,Hakka People,Divorced or widowed, Illiterate and Taoism; the mean year of living alone was18.17, the mean of age was 80.47.Main source of income for the "farmer annuity. " Leisure activities, "watching TV listening to music, " accounted for most.The mean number of chronic disease was 2.45, "hypertension"maximum, ADL and IADL disability average score 79.88 average 2.65 to the number of items. Terms of perceived health status in the average deviation of 9.5 points and had a median-to-low score of perceived health status.The needs of elderly care needs of a free health check (48.6%), free vaccine demand (47.6%), health care benefits costs (45.3%) and elderly free rides (39.6%) were most in need of five .
Conclusion： The results of this study help to understand the health status of elderly people living alone and care needs of the current situation, to provide community care services for elderly people living alone reference for policy and planning to ensure that care services for elderly people living alone received the accessibility, according to local resources to provide a complete holistic care features local service model and service distribution network, we might be able to give a comprehensive and appropriate care ,and improve the quality of life and the social participation of the elders living alone.
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