Abstract
Objective:To study the demands of community health education on the empty nest elderly and analyse the related factors. Methods:The 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey(SF-36), activities of daily living (ADL) and the community health services satisfaction scale were used to investigate the community health service demand and supply of 358 empty nesters. Results:The results showed that the ability of self-care was worse and needed more nursing or caring from others in the empty nest elderly; the empty nest elderly, in comparison with the non-empty-nest elderly, had lower physical and mental scores. With the age changing, the requirements of community health services were different in empty nest elderly and the satisfaction of community health service was low in the empty nest (39.1%). Conclusions: Empty nest elderly generally needed the different degree of community health education demands. The utilization rates of community health education were low.
Highlights
With the accelerating pace of population aging population and the miniaturization trend of the family structure, the proportion of empty nesters will further improve [1]
The results showed that the ability of self-care was worse and needed more nursing or caring from others in the empty nest elderly; the empty nest elderly, in comparison with the non-empty-nest elderly, had lower physical and mental scores
The requirements of community health services were different in empty nest elderly and the satisfaction of community health service was low in the empty nest (39.1%)
Summary
With the accelerating pace of population aging population and the miniaturization trend of the family structure, the proportion of empty nesters will further improve [1]. Community health service takes health as the center, the family as a unit and community-wide, which is the health service system of prevention, care, rehabilitation, health care and health education [2]. With the aging of population, rapid development of empty nests, nesters have gradually become an object group of community health service. The characteristics of empty nesters are of large quantity, there will be more service projects and difficulties. They will become the work focus of the community health service. Community health education is the core role in the community health service, which could guide the elders (to treat and prevent diseases) and improve the quality of life. Compared with some developed countries, the development of Chinese community health education is relatively late and the system is still not yet perfect
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