TITLE:
The Study on Community Health Education of Empty Nest Elderly
AUTHORS:
Ling Gao, Xue Cao, Min Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Empty Nest Elderly; Community Health Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.5 No.10B,
October
30,
2013
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.